全球情绪风向标--推特（Twitter）

译者 Visage Baugh

A global mood ring called Twitter

全球心情戒指--推特

译者注：“心情戒指”为一种由特殊材料制成、颜色根据佩戴者的情绪及体温变化而改变的戒指。

October 7, 2011

2011年10月07日

In a follow-up to their mood maps, Scott Golder and Michael Macy of Cornell University look at mood cycles during the hours of the day:

在他们后续的情绪分布图中，康奈尔大学的斯科特·高德与迈克尔·马西研究了（人们在）一天之内的情绪变化：

They found that, on average, people wake up in a good mood, which falls away over the course of the day. Positive feelings peak early in the morning and again nearer midnight, while negative feelings peak between 9pm and 3am. Unsurprisingly, people get happier as the week goes on. They’re most positive on Saturdays and Sundays and they tend to lie in for an extra two hours, as shown by the delayed peak in their positive feelings. The United Arab Emirates provide an interesting exception. There, people work from Sunday to Thursday, and their tweets are most positive on Friday and Saturday.

他们发现，通常情况下，人们起床时都有好心情，但随着一天的行进，好心情逐渐殆尽。正面情绪的峰值出现在早晨，在临近黄昏时再次出现。而负面情绪的顶峰则出现在下午9点至凌晨3点之间。不出所料，随着一周的行进，人们的心情逐渐变好。人们在周六周日时最乐观，且更愿意多睡2个小时，这导致正面情绪高峰的延迟出现。但阿联酋是个有意思的特例。人们从周日工作到周四，所以他们的推特在周五及周六时最乐观。

It's strange that good mood peaks around midnight. Maybe the people who are in a bad mood slowly go to sleep, leaving only those in a good mood to tweet. Then again, negative mood also seems to peak around midnight. Peculiar. I don't have access to the full article, so if anyone does, I'd be interested to hear Golder and Macy's interpretations.

奇怪的是，好心情的顶点出现在午夜前后。大概是因为心情不好的人有气无力地睡觉去了，只剩下心情好的人来发推特。话说回来，似乎负面情绪也在午夜前后达到最大值。怪极了。我没有全文的链接，如果谁有的话，我会饶有兴致地听高德和马西的解释。

[Discover Magazine via @albertocairo]