I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.
I don't think people understand the power of social media or our phones.
I don't Tweet a lot because I've Tweeted things that I thought were really innocuous about subjects that are inflammatory, and the response is so insane sometimes from people.
The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.
At its core Twitter is about sharing, and I think that in life we never feel better or more energized than when we're giving to someone else.
In the world of Facebook and Twitter, you can treasure hunt for tidbits about somebody that you find interesting and pretty much find out everything you need to know - which is why I stay away from social media - I'm terrified of it.
In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot of the current moment. The information itself - our social graph of friends and likes - is a product being sold to market researchers in order to better predict and guide our futures.
Social media is its own sort of thing: Twitter and Facebook have changed the way everyone perceives everything.
While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the future.
It turns out that with Twitter data alone, we can go quite some way into figuring out someone's personality.