Twitter Studies

In this article, Cornell University used Twitter to track not only American's behavior (such as bacon is more popular than sausage, Oprah airs at 4pm, and it takes seven hours to become drunk) but emotions as well (people are happiest in the morning and near midnight throughout the whole week [just different times on weekends]). I think this is a great idea. Its an easy way to track American's behavior and emotion without bothering them or without them even knowing (their fault - open twitter accounts). I think the only drawback to this is that, my two happiest moods peak at maybe noon and then eight pm. Mornings are NOT happy for me. I guess I'm just not a regular American.