Dawn of the Geeks

The Emotional State of the Internet is a website which analyzes Twitter messages and calculates how the internet is feeling. It’s updated every 10 minutes. You can also see a historical chart of the current top emotion.

It’s interesting to see the difference between what emotion people twitter about the most in various languages. French speakers talk about how lonely they are. Germans by a wide margin talk about “angst” the most. While Google Translate tells me it means “frightened” in English, according to Wikipedia it more accurately translates to “anxiety.” This is why I keep the original word listed and put the English translation in parantheses.

Italians tend to talk most about being “triste” which means sad while Spanish speakers talk by a slightly wider margin about being happy.

Maybe Spanish speakers are happier than everyone else or maybe they use Twitter mostly to express happiness and tend to keep other emotions to themselves.

If you want to what people are getting emotional about you can click on “keywords” at the top of the page. That will list all the current keywords for all the various emotions the site is tracking.