Everyone on Twitter Is Increasingly Depressed

“ It appears that felicity is going down , ” says a University of Vermont researcher and head word of a newstudyon wellbeing . The proof ? Twitter , of course of study . Millions of user point to a global depression of an entirely non - monetary kind .

The team took 46 billion tweeted Book across three years , and had user of Amazon ’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing simple machine to assign them happiness value — toxicant is dysphoric , patty is happy , etc . These were then average and their oftenness plotted , allow researchers to calculate a rough world mood . From the graph above , you could see it ’s not a major drop , but overall , we ’re getting unhappy . Whether that means we as in everyone or we as in the tweeting populace is up in the strain . Still , the UVM squad feel sure-footed enough to hold their Twitter lens a right hedonometer — gauge of felicity — and extrapolate outwards .

Is Mechanical Turk ’s poke army a fair judge of verbal timbre ? Is Twitter the best way to badly tap a person ’s thoughts ? So much of what flows through Twitter has nothing to do with our true emotions , I ’d hazard — retweets are often not warrant , and the playful or insincere prevails . The question , then , is whether we ’ll open up about our feelings through Twitter — an entirely public venue that most multitude would agree is n’t really right for throwing your sorrows around — or whether our subconscious miserableness is just seeping out . I tend to talk about how crushingly dysphoric I am on Facebook — you ? [ UVMviaVerge ]

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