Produced by the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University (my alma mater), and Harvard Medical School at Harvard University, the above infograph was built using over 300 million tweets and shows density-preserving cartograms for each hour of the day (EST), by U.S. state. According to this data, us New Englanders are indeed a cranky bunch, only tweeting happy things in the early morning and late at night! (It also kind of makes me want to drop everything and move to California.)
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[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Joe Ribaudo, Joe Ribaudo. Joe Ribaudo said: We New Englanders are a Cranky Bunch: http://tinyurl.com/23r7evu [...]
Could be that those west coast people are just more worried about tweeting happy, friendly tweets so people will like them.
I had the impression, from looking at the data, that it has to do with the amount of sunshine states like FL and CA get…