Tag Archives: twitter

25Jul/12

Improving the happiness index

25 July 2012twitterconversational psychogeography, oxford, oxforduk, twitterJon Bounds

After my talk at Oxford Geek Night I was happy to have a couple of suggestions to see if the algorithm could produce better results. One was to remove retweets from theRead More…

19Jul/12

Is Oxford happy?

19 July 2012art, birminghamuk, social media, twitterbirminghamuk, conversational psychogeography, oxford, twitterJon Bounds

After moving down to Oxford I did an update of my Birmingham Emotions conversational psychogeography project. That’s now quite simple as I have built a ‘happy monitor’ that can centre anywhere. I’mRead More…

19Mar/12

Twitizen Kane

19 March 2012my projects, social media, writingart, Citizen Kane, twitterJon Bounds

Yesterday, I tried the Twitpanto method on “the greatest film ever made”. As part of  ‘Yarn presents Five Stories High’ at Flatpack Festival, I re-interpreted around ten minutes of Citizen Kane. It wasRead More…

03May/11

Excellent Engagement

3 May 2011good practice, microblogging, social media, twitterengagement, local sports team, the simpsons, twitterJon Bounds

Content, interaction, community—that’s what your social media profile is all about. It’s a message that seems to have hit most brands, and organisations right down to the smallest. But from what I’mRead More…

19Jan/11

Is Twitter about to do a mass reclaim of unused accounts?

19 January 2011twitterclosing accounts, twitterJon Bounds

It’s easy to sign up for a Twitter account, all you need is an email address. It used to be even easier, they weren’t even verified. I have, I estimate, about a hundred—lots usedRead More…

02Dec/10

Sentiment Analysis of a Football Match

2 December 2010my projects, portfolio, social media, social media work, twitterfootball, sentiment analysis, twitterJon Bounds

(click through for big) Last night I turned my sentiment analysis tool on two hashtags: #bcfc and #avfc, the most widely used tags to refer to Birmingham City and Aston Villa duringRead More…

19Oct/10

Sentiment Analysis of the X-Factor

19 October 2010my projectshashtag, sentiment analysis, twitter, X-FactorJon Bounds

As promised, I turned my Twitter sentiment analysis tool on the big TV/social web phenomenon that is the X-Factor. I started the script running at around 6:30pm and off again at 10:30pm — butRead More…

07Oct/10

Sentiment Analysis and Twitter ‘wormals’

7 October 2010Conferences & Talks, my projects, social media, social media workConservative Party Conference, cpc10, David Cameron, pdfeu, sentiment analysis, twitterJon Bounds

I’ve tried two experiments with the “is Birmingham happy” algorithm in the last few days, as they’re not based on place it makes more sense to use the popular term ‘sentiment analysis’Read More…

29Sep/10

Is Birmingham Happy?

29 September 2010future web, geodata, my projects, portfolio, social media, social media work, twitter, web development workanew, birminghamuk, conversational psychogeography, emotion, is brum happy, psychogeography, sentiment analysis, twitter, wormalJon Bounds

I’ve been running a, very rough, scrape of the Birmingham (UK) based interweb for ’emotional wellbeing’ since April of 2008. Simply put a script running twice a day read in Tweets, newsRead More…

24Sep/10

Loose Tweets Sink Fleets

24 September 2010good practice, twitteradvice, tweets, twitterJon Bounds

…or otherwise carefully crafted communications anyway. If you’re newish to Twitter and attempting to communicate with people to achieve anything more than a way to update friends or follow people you likeRead More…