A platform developed by researchers at the University of Vermont uses a sampling of Tweets to quantify people's overall level of happiness: http://www.gizmag.com/hedonometer-happiness-index/27394/
A 2009 story about the Hedonometer points out that, up to that point, the day of Michael Jackson's death was one of the saddest and Election Day was the happiest: http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/07/29/us-happiness-blogs-idUSTRE56S0TQ20090729
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