Launched in August 2011, Wyst is a social media app that allows users to tag locations in New York City with an emoticon. After a year of collecting data, Wyst has compiled enough info to publish its first Mood Map of NYC.
A high volume of internet traffic, and commenting, is evidently made up of people intent on explaining why they're angry about something. But Wyst's results show a happier side to social media. "Happy" was, by far, the top emoticon shared by users of the mood sampling app in New York City. In their mood map of the city, Wyst has been able to pinpoint the most common sentiments in each of the city's neighborhoods.
"It's predictable that the angriest nabe is the high-testosterone
Financial District," say the editors of The Architect's Newspaper. "More unexpected is Hasidic-hipster South
Williamsburg's status as the flirtiest. Cheers, East Village, you're the
drunkest. Roosevelt Island? The most surprised ("You can only drive
here from Queens?" "There's a Louis Kahn-designed
park?"). Poor Clinton Hill ranks as the absolute saddest-chin up, Pratt
students! Cross the river and get some liquid courage with your NYU
friends."
FULL STORY: Moody Rating: App Tracks New York Neighborhoods’ Feelings
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