Tracking public mood in the English language world – reaching a peak/trough in days of coronavirus and death of George Floyd [hedometer on the web]

The drop over the last four days amounts to as much as:

3 times the positive bump of a typical Thanksgiving,
or
1.5 times the usual Christmas spike.

— hedonometer (@hedonometer) May 30, 2020

Drops continuing over many days, which we have now seen for coronavirus and George Floyd’s death, are also unprecedented for Hedonometer.

— hedonometer (@hedonometer) May 30, 2020

Link to the time series:https://t.co/f1cbKRXBko

Link to the word shift:https://t.co/3Jb5okZ7xT

— hedonometer (@hedonometer) May 30, 2020

Two days ago was the saddest day ever recorded on Twitter, according to ⁦@hedonometer⁩. And recent months have been the saddest prolonged period. Here’s how ⁦@peterdodds⁩, ⁦@ChrisDanforth⁩, and their team quantify Twitter’s sadness: https://t.co/2d57O2aWnc

— Steven Strogatz (@stevenstrogatz) May 31, 2020