The study shows how, in the morning, we wake up keen to get involved in this thing we call life, but it declines during the day, with emotions like guilt and anger building up, and only recovers after 6pm when work is over.

The study also shows that despite geographical differences, the trend was the same in 84 countries across the world. For the most part, British Twitter users had a more positive outlook compared to those in France and Portugal, but less than people in the USA and Australia, scoring slightly below average on a global scale.

Prof Michael Macy of Cornell University in America attributes the trend to the “positive effects of sleep, along with our natural behavioural cycle known as circadian rhythm”.

Everyone else attributes it to the “9-5 is ruining my life” and the “I could be at the beach right now but I’m stuck at work” rhythm.

Anyway. Using a computer program, they searched for words that indicated how a writer was feeling, with some messages expressing positive feelings like enthusiasm, delight, activeness and alertness, while others indicated negative emotions like distress, fear, anger, guilt and disgust.

Whatever Twitter. Duh. It’s Friday.

Live the holiday. Boom.

[Source: telegraph]