The results, not too surprisingly, suggested that Facebook has the power to manipulate sentiment at scale.
The emergence and global adoption of social media has rendered possible the real-time estimation of population-scale sentiment, an extraordinary capacity which has profound implications for our understanding of human behavior.
This is the genre that made stars of Kate Hudson and Freddie Prinze Jr, a genre where films that try to do more than offer the audience a vicarious taste of those heady first days of love (real-life breakup exposes like Susan Buice and Arin Crumley's Four-Eyed Monsters, for instance) are buried by sugary sentiment on a blockbuster scale.
He estimated he could have neutralized or possibly defeated the anti-Buchanan sentiment in a full-scale showdown that would have reminded the nation that his candidacy is alive and well.
Cognovi Labs is a new analytics startup that relies on Twitris, a Wright State University-developed tool that claims to be able to take a sample of social media chatter about a specific topic and deduce real-time, large-scale, automated sentiment about the specific topic they are researching.
Writing for the Los Angeles Times, Mikael Wood felt that with "Pretty Hurts," Beyoncé created "razzle-dazzle pop out of small-scale sentiments that might've seemed on paper like fodder for hushed ballads".
A renewed sense of Arab anger against the United States for its policies in the Middle East could complicate American efforts in the war on terrorism, particularly if concern about that public sentiment causes Arab governments to scale back their contributions to the campaign against terror.
The securities watchdog told companies to take the timing, scale and market sentiment into account when planning new share issues, in a statement on its Web site.
(See: "As Stocks Slide, Anger Mounts At Ping An") The securities watchdog told companies to "take the timing, scale and market sentiment into account when planning new share issues" in a statement on its Web site.
However, this was a "significant scaling back" of sentiment compared with this time last year, the CBI said.
