Twitter is in its way to improve the allocation of mental health services around the world with the new tool to map moods. Recently, Australian researchers have introduced the online tool, named as ‘We Feel’ to the world. This tool is equipped with a technology that can analyze over 32,000 tweets every minute. Most of those tweets were being linked to various emotions like anger, sadness, love, joy, fear and surprise. Twitter has saved this data and decided to make it use to monitor emotions of every individual as well as every community that appears on Twitter page from different areas. The lead researcher of Black Dog Institute in Australia (meant for doing research and treatments of different mood disorders), Helen Christensen said in this context, “this tool will ultimately predict when and where potentially life-saving services are required.” The director of the same institute added, “The power of this information cannot be underestimated. Currently, mental health researchers and associated public health programmes use population data that can be over five years old.”
However, the tool is not made capable of analyzing any other language rather than English. Along with this, lack of other important data like the gender, location or identity is the biggest drawbacks for the tool to analyze the mental condition in a proper way. The interesting fact is, despite of such deficiencies, the project researchers, Bridianne O’Dea defended the tool by claiming this tool is the first identifier where every user can be judged individually. He said, “This demonstrates that we can monitor people over time, we can pick up trends, and now it’s about validating this and see if these trends are indicative of what’s really going on. Now that we can collect data over time, we can do time comparisons and pretty much get a greater understanding of how people are using these technologies to express how they feel because we don’t know that yet. Nobody knows that yet.”
Source :- buzzom.com