Our project on mapping the mood of twitter was covered extensively in the press. Below, I’ve listed some of the highlights.

Television

• Tweets Map the Country’s Mood. CBS Evening News with Katie Couric (July 23rd). Watch the video here. Transcript available here.
• America’s moods mapped using Twitter. Fox News 25 (July 23rd, 2010). Watch here.
• Scientists Use Twitter to Track Nation’s Mood. Fox News (July 28th, 2010). Watch here.
• Mapping Moods: Twitter Proves the West Coast is Happier. CBS 3 (August 2nd, 2010). Watch here.

News, papers, and periodicals

• There’s Wisdom in Those Tweets. Scientific American (October 7th, 2010).
• When Life Is Sweet, According to Our Tweets. New York Times (July 24th, 2010).
• 300 Million Tweets Reveal the Afternoon at Work Is the Unhappiest Time of Day.  New York Times (July 23rd, 2010). [VentureBeat]
• Tracking the National Mood Through Twitter. New York Times (July 22nd, 2010). [Bits]
• Thursday, the Unhappiest Day. New York Times (August 5th, 2010). [By the Numbers]
• America: Are you Happy? BBC (July 23rd, 2010).
• Thursday: Twitter’s Angriest Day. Time Magazine (July 22nd, 2010).
• Are West Coast Tweeters Happier Than Their East Coast Counterparts? Vanity Fair (July 22nd, 2010).
• Twitter Reveals West Coast Happier Than East Coast, Say Scientists. New York Magazine (July 22nd 2010).
• Proof From Twitter Research: Floridians Happier Than Rest of the Bitter Nation. Miami New Times (July 22nd, 2010).
• California much more jovial than East Coast, study finds. LA Times (July 23rd, 2010).
• Twitter Used To Gauge The Nation’s Mood. Wall Street Journal (July 24th, 2010).
• Study of Twitter users finds daily, hourly mood swings. USA Today (July 28th, 2010).
• Twitter Visualization Shows When We Are Happiest. SF Gate/San Francisco Chronicle (July 21st, 2010).
• Twitter Mood: The Pulse of the Nation. CBS News (July 22nd, 2010).
• Happy People: Researchers Pinpoint Smiles (And Frowns) Using Twitter. National Public Radio (July 23rd, 2010). [all tech considered]
• Is The West Coast Happier? Twitter Says Yes. National Public Radio (July 22nd, 2010). [The Picture Show]

Blogs

• Time-Lapse Twitter Visualization Shows America’s Moods. Mashable (July 21st, 2010).
• Twitter ‘Mood Map’ Tracks The Nation’s Happiness. Huffington Post (July 23rd, 2010).
• Twitter finds West Coast is happier than East. CNET (July 22nd, 2010).
• Researchers Analyze 300 Million Tweets to Create Mood Ring for America. Gawker (July 22nd, 2010).
• Map Measures U.S. Mood on Twitter. Technorati (July 22nd, 2010).
• Twitter Gauges Nation’s Mood. The Daily Beast (July 23rd, 2010).
• Twitter Research Proves California Is a Far Happier Place Than New York. Slate (July 16th, 2010). [The Big Money]
• The moodiness of the US, as told by Twitter. Engadget (July 27th, 2010).

Our side of the story:

• Do we tweet when we’re in certain moods? Big Questions online (July 26th, 2010).
• Is twitter a national mood ring? CNN (August 6th, 2010).

The most comprehensive list of stories that covered the project can be found here.

Press for other projects:

• Tweeting the elections. News @ Northeastern (Novmber 2nd, 2010).
  
• Showing the Spread of MFN Agreements. The Monkey Cage (June 22nd, 2010).
• Complex Networks Made Simpler. News @ Northeastern (June 21st, 2010).
• Taking the temperature of COP15 via twitter. Mindjumpers Blog (December 11th, 2009).
• Visualizing Moods on Twitter. Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media (August 12th, 2009).
• The Curious Case of the Polio Virus Learn Node. GoldenSwamp (March-April 2009 edition).
• Revolutionäre Rechnungen [in German].  Laborjournal Online (February 2nd, 2007).
• Uorden i rangorden [in Danish]. Niels Bohr Institute News (January 5th, 2007).
• Dansk undersøgelse i Nature: Vi måler forskningens kvalitet forkert [in Danish]. Ingeniøren (December 21st, 2006).
• Statistical Noise. Editor’s commentary. Nature (December 21st, 2006).
• Older stuff in Danish (mostly for my Mom).
  • Mellem kæmper og fodnoter. Aktuel Naturvidenskab (October, 2006).
  • Feministisk gennembrud ved OL 2636. Ingeniøren (October 29th, 2004).
  • Fremtidens Computer. Bitconomy (November 23rd, 2001).
  • Fascineret af Fysik. Gymnasieskolen (#23, 2001).
  • Hvis en vinternat en stjernekigger. Information (March 15th, 2001).