Geographically Resolved Rhythms in Twitter Use Reveal Social Pressures on Daily Activity Patterns.

ABSTRACT: Daily rhythms in human physiology and behavior are driven by the interplay of circadian rhythms, environmental cycles, and social schedules. Much research has focused on the mechanism and function of circadian rhythms in constant conditions or in idealized light-dark environments. There have been comparatively few studies into how social pressures, such as work and school schedules, affect human activity rhythms day to day and season to season. To address this issue, we analyzed activity on Twitter in >1,500 US counties throughout the 2012-2013 calendar years in 15-min intervals using geographically tagged tweets representing ≈0.1% of the total population each day. We find that sustained periods of low Twitter activity are correlated with sufficient sleep as measured by conventional survey

SUBMITTER: Leypunskiy E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6590897 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature