British Twittersphere OBSERVATORY

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  • We report below four indicators of emotional well-being based on the textual content of the tweets of a fixed population (49,982 users) located in the UK: Anger, Anxiety, Sadness and Mental Health.
  • Anger, Anxiety and Sadness are constructed from the averaged daily frequency (across users) of words in the tweets that can be matched to the lexical field of anger, anxiety and sadness, respectively.
  • Mental Health is constructed from the averaged daily frequency (across users) of all words that are matched to the lexical field of anger, anxiety and sadness in all tweets.
  • Increases in these series are associated with a deterioration of the corresponding indicator.
  • Data span from January 1st 2020 to March 23rd 2023.

  • Mental Health Indicators

    Top Hashtags from Last Week by Categories

    Females
    Trulli
    Males
    Trulli
    18 and younger
    Trulli
    19-29
    Trulli
    30-39
    Trulli
    40 and older
    Trulli

    Information on Database

    The dataset is composed of the tweets posted by 49,982 users located in the UK.