The most influential emotion on social networks is 'anger'
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With SNS such as Facebook and Twitter, you can easily publish daily events to your friends and followers and share their feelings with each other, but what kind of emotions affect the person who read the most? It turned out.
Most Influential Emotions on Social Networks Revealed | MIT Technology Review
https://www.technologyreview.com/2013/09/16/176450/most-influential-emotions-on-social-networks-revealed/
SNS has similar characteristics such as the word 'kind calls friends' and the characteristic that people with hobbies can easily gather. So, Louis Huang of Beijing Aeronautics and Astronautics University in China was interested in 'Which emotions are getting people's empathy online?', Similar to China's most popular Twitter, Weibo. I investigated SNS with my friends.
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During the six months of 2010, Louis and his colleagues collected about 70 million tweets from Weibo from 200,000 users, categorized tweets by emotion by analyzing emoticons, and further 'joy,' 'sadness,' and 'sadness.' Classified into four categories: anger and disgust. And I researched how emotions spread through the network through tweets.
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The survey was conducted by measuring whether the user who saw the tweet retweets or passes through each emotion. As a result, no correlation was found for 'sadness' and 'disgust', and a high correlation was found for 'joy'. The most highly correlated was the feeling of 'anger', which 'anger is surprisingly more influential than other emotions and can spread quickly and widely on the network,' Louis said. I am.
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After collecting and examining angry tweets for confirmation, it was found that anger can be classified into two types of triggers. The first is the military activities of the United States and South Korea in the Yellow Sea, and conflicts with foreign countries such as the September 2010 collision between China and Japan on the Senkaku Islands Chinese fishing boat. The second is social issues related to food security in China, government bribery, and the collapse of resettlement houses, all of which have become socially talked about in China and have feelings of anger. Due to the large number of Chinese people, it is believed to have spread quickly on Weibo.
Weibo has a large number of Chinese users, so this result can be thought of as a tendency for Chinese users, but it is interesting to see if the same result will be obtained in Japan and elsewhere.
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