New Study Uses Tweets To Rank America’s Happiest Cities, States

Be warned: your next tweet could be used to determine how happy you are.

A new study by researchers at the Vermont Complex Systems Center at the University of Vermont studied more than 10 million geotagged tweets from 2011 to rank the happiest U.S. cities and states. Focusing on the how often positive or negative words appeared in tweets, the team used its “hedonometer” to gauge which American destinations are the happiest and posted its findings here.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/02/25/new-study-uses-tweets-to-rank-americas-happiest-cities-states/