Curini, Luigi; Iacus, Stefano; Canova, Luciano - In: Social Indicators Research 121 (2015) 2, pp. 525-542
We examine messages posted by Italian users on the social networking service Twitter to investigate idiosyncratic shocks of happiness. Contrary to questionnaires, analyzing social media allows to nowcast happiness in real-time, including mapping its fluctuation due to the occurrence of...