Happy Valentine’s Day, friends!
If you didn’t already enter my Valentine’s Day Scavenger Hunt, you have until Friday morning to do so. There are some really awesome fitness prizes up for grabs! You definitely want to enter!
I’ve recently gotten into the habit of reading magazines (as opposed to books) in bed before I fall asleep. Last night, I was perusing the March issue of Real Simple and stumbled upon an interesting clip about a study that found people’s tweets on Twitter to be the most upbeat between 6 A.M. to 9 A.M.
6 A.M. to 9 A.M.
The time when we feel the most upbeat—or so say our tweets. A study in the journal Science analyzed the Twitter feeds of 2.4 million people in 84 countries. The findings: Users are in good spirits in the morning. That’s when the words agree, awesome, and super (or their foreign equivalents) are tweeted most often. Things go downhill as the day progresses, bottoming out between 3 P.M and 4 P.M., when annoy and afraid saturate cyberspace. What a tangled (worldwide) web we weave!
I thought this was really interesting, so I did my own informal, small-scale study this morning. I looked a 20-minute block of time on my Twitter feed and searched it to see if any of those upbeat words, mentioned in the study, appeared in the tweets of the 1,230 people I follow.
Surprisingly, the words agree and awesome didn’t show up at all and super did only once. I was kind of bummed with these results, so I tried some other positive/upbeat words, including good, great, and amazing, to see if they showed up. Here’s how many times each of them appeared in tweets:
- Fantastic: 0
- Amazing: 0
- Nice: 1
- Great: 3
- Good: 4
- Best: 4
- Sweet: 7
- Love: 27
- Happy: 28
Of course, the words love and happy were related to Valentine’s Day, but, on a few occasions, they referred to non-Valentine’s Day topics. For example, some of the loves described things people liked (i.e. I love coffee) and one of the happys was part of a tweet that wished followers a “happy and healthy day.” Kind of cool, right? It was an interesting little experiment.
If you’re on Twitter, do you find that your tweets are more upbeat in the beginning of the day? If you’re not on Twitter, do you find that you’re more upbeat in the morning or as the day progresses?
Breakfast
This morning’s breakfast was “Oatmeal” Minus the Oats with a massive scoop of peanut butter. None of our bananas were very ripe, so I smushed one up (in the peel before peeling it) to use in my breakfast.
I also drank an iced coffee with soy milk with breakfast.
I’m off to find a red dress!
See ya for lunch!
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I love reading magazines before bed too – it’s one of my guilty pleasures and I never get tired of them! About the tweeting, I think I’d probably agree with that statement. I work out in the early AM and I know a lot of people do too, so I think part of the positive tweeting probably has to do with people that are still loving their endorphin rush!
I love that 6 am is the morning time for happiest tweets. I’m (hopefully) still asleep at 6 am so no happy tweets from me! Ha! Although, I do find myself more upbeat after being up for about 10 minutes. Mostly because throughout the day there are certain people I deal with (bad drivers, people at school, etc.) that can drag me down. So I can totally see that!
God, I can’t believe bananas only came up once.
Happy Vday! My morning breakfast involved bacon hearts, mmmmm.
It’s nice to see that people are waking up with positive attitudes toward the day.
Interesting – I find I’m more positive on twitter than other social media outlets (especially facebook) – twitter makes me love people I’ve never met, while Facebook makes me annoyed with people I know.
Tweets are definitely the most positive in the morning. I think it’s a good and a bad thing. It shows that most of us start the day on the right foot…. but we don’t end it on the same foot.
I think I’m definitely more upbeat in the morning, right after I’ve had my coffee.
I like this better than oatmeal!
The 3 o’clock slump makes some sense to me, because I know that’s when I’m in desperate need of coffee and not too pleasant. The 6-9 may put people around their workouts, so the endorphins are talking? Either way, it’s an interesting study!
hmmm interesting topic, I think a lot of people definitely feel more optimistic and energized during those hours of the day, myself included.
I always read mags before bed
I love that you smooched up your banana before putting it in your “oatmeal” for breakfast. You must have LOVE on the brain this Valentine’s Day!
Happy valentines Day! Good luck with finding your dress!
I LOVE the a.m. –so yes, I think I am my most upbeat then
This was super funny and interesting to read about.
Good luck with the red dress shopping!!
Oooo a red dress! Sounds like fun! And I do tend to have happier tweets in the morning, unless the weather here in Chicago is awful!
That made me laugh! Maybe today was a bad day to do it because it’s valentines day and we’re all hopefully having a leisurely morning with our loved ones (and not worried about twitter)!
@Sneakers2Sandals: I didn’t mean to sound like you shouldn’t have done the investigating! I just re read what I wrote and that’s what it kinda sounded like. I meant I’m glad you did the test but I hope you’ll try it again on a non-holiday day!
I still need to try your Oatmeal Minus the Oats! It always looks so good.
Yes! I think it’s true about the tweets. I complain too much about getting tired in the afternoon…
Maybe the reason people are so upbeat in the morning is because they haven’t had to deal with the rest of the world yet!
Only kidding! I like to stay upbeat and keep my public rants to a minimum. I don’t want to be “the downer.” Good luck finding the perfect red dress!
Yes! Twitter messages are ALWAYS so much more upbeat in the morning! They’re all “good morning!” “Ready to start the day!” while later, they change to “Ohhh, this day is dragging!” or something like that.
If i need some extra workout motivation to get going in the morning I always turn to twitter! Being in Arizona, most of my followers on the east coast have already finished their workouts for the morning and are tweeting positive vibes. The time difference really works in my favor come 5am
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!
I loveeeeee twitter. I am always tweeting everywhere I go, especially while watching my fave TV shows and whatnot and connecting with others who love them! I would honestly say though, my tweets are a mix and I can be positive any time of day, usually in mornings it’s not super positive if I have to get up super early though – haha – or if it’s bad weather!
I agree morning tweets are upbeat but I also find the 4-4:30pm tweets to be very upbeat too when its almost home time!
I love the idea of a red dress. Alas, my resolution was no more dresses this year. Boo hoo.
I think in general I am more upbeat in the mornings, mostly because no one has annoyed me yet
Cute heart-shaped placemat!
So true about the tweets..I am always the most upbeat first thing in the morning- probably bc I am on an endorphin high!
Since I am at work around 7 I dont often check twitter at that time but I know i personally am more upbeat in the morning. Sometimes after lunch the day just drags and all I want to do is leave the office. By 6pm, forget it, I am in sweats and totally ready to just snuggle on the couch and call it a night…
yes I am a 89 year old in a 24 year old body!
Interesting…it definitely makes sense and mimics how my attitude usually progresses (or declines I guess) as the day goes on.
love the heart placemat!
haha I am definitely the chipper morning tweeter for sure.
Happy Valentine’s Day to you!!
I mash up my bananas that way too!!