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you cant just take 1 small website of a few million and use that as a gauge for everyone.]]>Jul 27th 2010 2:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/
Is it a great poll? No. But it can provide decent info depending upon the question asked.]]>Jul 27th 2010 2:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/lol exactly. Twitter users sure as hell are not representitive of any group other than Twitter users.]]>Jul 27th 2010 2:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/Jul 27th 2010 2:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/how so? I said they were not representitive of the poplulation at large.]]>Jul 27th 2010 3:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/
Florida is good!;)]]>Jul 27th 2010 3:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/no you only said that it's not representative of any particular group other than Twitter users. therefore it's as general as possible (unless millions of Twitter users are fundamentally different from the overall average, which they probably are, but I can't imagine by much...). disclaimer: i don't use twitter, yet anyway.

anyway, i defer to BigJayDogg3's post]]>Jul 27th 2010 3:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/
I think you could argue that they are somewhat different. They either have a reason to send out short blurbs to lots of people (musician, artist, business) or they somehow think everyone cares about whatever they are doing at the moment. ]]>Jul 27th 2010 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/
New York and Lousiana .. (and apparently Maine? lol) are some pissed off places.]]>Jul 27th 2010 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/
LOL @ New Mexico constantly being in a state of anger.]]>Jul 27th 2010 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/one SMALL Website? Since when is a site with over 100 million users Small!?]]>Jul 27th 2010 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/Jul 27th 2010 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/Jul 30th 2010 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/Jul 27th 2010 2:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/
The New Geographic Map of USA (Twitter Edition)
hehe.]]>Jul 27th 2010 2:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/Jul 27th 2010 3:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/The larger/smaller distortion of certain states and areas represents the amount of activity/tweets at that given time if day. That's why more sparsely populated areas look pinched. ]]>Jul 27th 2010 3:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/Jul 27th 2010 2:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/it's 10:32 now in soviet russia where mood track YOU]]>Jul 27th 2010 2:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/Jul 27th 2010 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/Jul 27th 2010 2:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/Jul 27th 2010 2:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/wtf is a mashable?]]>Jul 27th 2010 2:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/potatoes.com maby :)]]>Jul 27th 2010 2:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/Jul 27th 2010 2:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/
i just find it funny that NY is never green ;)]]>Jul 27th 2010 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/
We never really drop to "unhappy", while the rest of the East Coast is seething red at worst we're just kinda "meh". Hard to be unhappy in all the sunshine.]]>Jul 27th 2010 2:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/or you could get the same sunshine in CA and not sweat your balls off 24/7 or have $500 A/C bills]]>Jul 27th 2010 2:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/
Besides, the water is warmer here which makes for fun diving in the Keys. =P]]>Jul 27th 2010 2:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/
Your state is the wang of the country. ]]>Jul 27th 2010 2:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/FL elects people like Jeb Bush and Kamala Harris to run the show. and I'd say with the 2000 election, it proved it can match CA's dysfunction.

and yeah, CA, politically, is a clusterfuck. but you can't beat the weather, culture, recreation. =)]]>Jul 27th 2010 3:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/Jul 27th 2010 3:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/
A deformed Butterfly
An angry dog
A maple leaf
A naked woman]]>Jul 27th 2010 2:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/
I see a dog, a chicken, a dog raping a chicken, and uhmmm...
wait... where are you taking me...
I'm not crazy...]]>Jul 27th 2010 2:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/
I see an old man dancing to techno under strobe lights holding the limp swaying body of his recently deceased cat Domino as he laughs hysterically with tears in his eyes reminiscing about the fun times they had together. =)

(top that)]]>Jul 27th 2010 3:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/Jul 27th 2010 2:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/it's all that AM radio.]]>Jul 27th 2010 2:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/
Or all the twitters were from Tea Party members about their thoughts on Obama and Pelosi. :D]]>Jul 27th 2010 2:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/Jul 27th 2010 3:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/
Actually, everybody seems angry except the people around Georgia/ Florida and California.]]>Jul 27th 2010 7:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/Jul 27th 2010 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/Jul 27th 2010 2:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/Jul 27th 2010 3:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/Jul 27th 2010 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/Jul 27th 2010 3:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/Jul 27th 2010 3:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/Jul 27th 2010 5:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/Jul 27th 2010 6:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/Jul 27th 2010 6:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/the-moodiness-of-the-us-as-told-by-twitter/Jul 27th 2010 8:59AM