It wasn’t long ago at all that I was getting the fright of my life trying to drive my car on six inches of solid ice and we were blogging about how the internet was awash with people talking about the snow. Skip forward a few weeks and now the hot topic (pardon the pun) is that the sun’s come out – hooray!
Personally, I love that a little bit of sun puts a smile on everybody’s faces – and, of course, the great British tradition of talking about the weather is just as true for the internet as it is for the tea break or the awkward, chance social encounter in the street. For a bit of fast feelgood Friday afternoon opinion research, then, I thought I’d see what Twitter search would turn up on the topic of ‘sun’. I tried out the advanced search to see what came back for the word ‘sun’, displaying a ‘positive attitude’ (tweets including smilies, aww) within 15 miles of Bristol and Soho (to see which Delib office was among the happier, hipper crowd of smiley Twitterers).
Perhaps unsurpisingly, there’s more volume from the London lot, but that’s by the by: just reading a couple of these made me happy by being able to share a little bit in the joy of others. I reckon everyone should generate a local RSS feed in the same way and subscribe to it as a kind of instant-life-affirmer… Or you can just have a look at my results for Bristol and for Soho.
P.S. Spotify is also providing me with free Badly Drawn Boy and Beach Boys – happy days, indeed.
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