It might come as a surprise to people bombarded with pictures of
their friends' dinners on Facebook and Instagram, but users of Twitter
don't tweet much about their food and talk most about coffee and beer, a
new study shows.
And when it comes to mentioning exercise, walking outscores everything else by a huge margin.
Mark R. Cristino / EPA
It's not the most rigorous scientific study, but
the team at the University of Utah was using federal grant money to try
to see if social media can tell us anything about the nation's health.
"We collected 80 million geotagged tweets from
603,363 unique Twitter users across the contiguous United States," the
team wrote in the Journal of Medical Internet Research - Public Health.
Only about 5 percent of tweets even mentioned food, they found, and fewer than 2 percent mentioned physical activity.
The top 10 tweeted foods:
coffee
beer
pizza
Starbucks
IPA (beer)
wine
chicken
barbecue
ice cream
tacos
The team counted 250,000 tweets mentioning coffee and more than 200,000 mentioning beer.
Fewer than 50,000 mentioned bacon and only about
30,000 mentioned salad. Maybe 75,000 mentioned ice cream or tacos, they
reported.
Walking scored close to a quarter-million tweets and only dancing
came close to that, with about 160,000. Cardio and fishing came in at
under 25,000 tweets. A statistic that will surprise friends and
neighbors of CrossFit adherents shows mentions of that gym-based workout
program -- whose members are encouraged to share their workout joy --
was even with bowling, at just over 25,000 each.
Quynh Nguyen and colleagues also tried to see if
they could judge regional happiness by looking at Twitter, using a
computer program for processing language for their analysis.
"Approximately 20 percent of tweets were happy," they wrote.
The happiest state, at least on Twitter, was Montana. The least happy state was Louisiana.
The researchers said they do realize that Twitter is not a precise reflection of what people do or how they feel.
"The content of tweets reflects the type of
information that people feel comfortable reporting and may not represent
the true spectrum of their feelings or their experiences," they wrote.
"For instance, people may feel most comfortable
presenting a neutral stance rather than voicing polarizing viewpoints.
Certain foods (cupcakes) may get tweeted more often than others
(celery). Additionally, we cannot be certain that the food that was
tweeted was indeed consumed."
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