Understanding people via 20 mn tweets in a ‘first-of-its-kind’ Twitter study

Telling about people and their situations from only 140 characters may not seem easy, but a new first-of-its-kind study is using 20 million tweets to understand the real-world situations.
To date, no research has tapped the vast data from social networking sites to study situations. This Florida Atlantic University research provides insights about the psychological experience of a typical workday or week.
Corresponding author David Serfass and co-author Ryne Sherman wanted to learn about the kin