Study: Denver the happiest city in the United States, according to local tweets (Parker: 2015)

[Mystery123]

Study: Denver the happiest city in the United States, according to local tweets | FOX31 Denver

DENVER — Denver and Los Angeles are the happiest cities in the nation — at least based on local Twitter traffic.
“Social intelligence” company Brandwatch used social media data and analytics to create the Twitter Happiness Report, which tracked how Twitter users express emotions online.
The study broke out the results by gender, life category, and conversation over time. The report also tried to reveal some of the nuances in people’s behavior when using Twitter to express feelings.
Key findings included:
Regional

• Of 30 cities examined, Denver and Los Angeles have the happiest days, while Louisville and Fort Worth have the least happy.
• Denverites report the highest daily levels of positive feelings
• Colorado has the second-highest ratio of good days to bad days out of all states, behind Georgia. Delaware and West Virginia were rated the gloomiest.
• Overall, the US regions with the highest ratio of positive to negative tweets were the West (including Colorado and all points west) and South. The Northeast and Midwest had the lowest ratio of positive to negative Tweets.

Who’s happiest – men or women?

• In general, men tweet happier than women. The report found the ratio of positive to negative references to a person’s day was 2.57 for males, compared to 1.942 for females.
• When tweeting about their lives on Twitter, women were more extreme, likely to use the phrases “love life” or “hate life” compared to men who use phrases like “having a good day” or “bad day.”

Friends and family make us happy

• On Twitter, posts about friends and family scored considerably higher for positivity, compared to posts about money or work.
• When people discuss their day on Twitter, posts about friends and family and money scored considerably higher than that of work.

When are we happiest on Twitter?

• Predictably, positive tweets were low across the board on weekdays, slightly more positive on Friday, and then high during the weekend.
• Users are more likely to tweet about the quality of their lives on a Saturday or Sunday, in general, compared to how their specific day is going.

“This report only scratches the surface of understanding the ways in which we express emotions online,” said study leader James Lovejoy, content researcher at Brandwatch. “Researching emotion presents a number of complex challenges. For example, this study can’t possibly identify the actual emotions that Twitter authors are experiencing or the extent to which they are experiencing it. However, we can be certain that behind every Tweet, post and conversation, there is some genuine emotion driving it.”
For more information on the study, including methodology, visit Brandwatch.

Hopefully, it's not all related to this:

[ShampooBanana]

Regional
Of 30 cities examined, Denver and Los Angeles have the happiest days, while Louisville and Fort Worth have the least happy.
Denverites report the highest daily levels of positive feelings
Colorado has the second-highest ratio of good days to bad days out of all states, behind Georgia. Delaware and West Virginia were rated the gloomiest.
Overall, the US regions with the highest ratio of positive to negative tweets were the West (including Colorado and all points west) and South. The Northeast and Midwest had the lowest ratio of positive to negative Tweets.
Who’s happiest – men or women?

This makes sense and is probably highly correlated with weather, amount of sunshine, and health of the general population (Denver is among the healthiest, and CO has the lowest rate of obesity in the nation). Income probably has a bit to do with it, too. Denver and CO fare pretty well there, also.

In general, men tweet happier than women. The report found the ratio of positive to negative references to a person’s day was 2.57 for males, compared to 1.942 for females.
When tweeting about their lives on Twitter, women were more extreme, likely to use the phrases “love life” or “hate life” compared to men who use phrases like “having a good day” or “bad day.”

No surprise there, either. Hormones and typical gender differences in self-esteem have a lot to do with that, I'm sure.

[bluescreen73]

Originally Posted by Mystery123

Study: Denver the happiest city in the United States, according to local tweets | FOX31 Denver



Hopefully, it's not all related to this:

If it were just the pot, Seattle wouldn't be 25th on that same survey.

[UKWildcat1981]

High Times probably wrote this article lol

[denverian]

Originally Posted by bluescreen73

If it were just the pot, Seattle wouldn't be 25th on that same survey.

Pot can't make the sun shine

[Timmyy]

Originally Posted by denverian

Pot can't make the sun shine

It can sure make you dream about it though.

[randomparent]

No surprise in any of this, and it has nothing to do with marijuana. Denver is a great place to live!

[BabyBoomers2]

Yes, marijuana or not, parts of Denver, like when we lived in the Parker area, are just plain GREAT! Lots of things to do, especially during the summer months. Wife and I really enjoyed living there and are seriously thinking about returning after my wife retires. Rodeo's, RMNP, the elk "rut", boating/fishing, Black Hawk for gambling, pro sports and on and on and especially how simply BEAUTIFUL Denver looks during the Christmas holidays.