Australian scientists have developed the world’s first Twitter tool that can map moods around the globe in real-time to help improve the allocation of mental health services.
The online tool called ‘We Feel’ will help understand how our emotions fluctuate over time due to changes in social, economic and environmental factors such as weather, time of day, news of a natural disaster or political instability, researchers said.
Researchers from Black Dog Institute and The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization unveiled ‘We Feel’ which analyses the words from millions of tweets to display a real-time view of our emotions.
It is hoped the tool could help understand how our collective mood changes and could help monitor community mental health and predict where services need to be assigned.
