This New Site Tracks Tweets About Booze, Weed, And Coke In Real Time

[neversickanymore]

This New Site Tracks Tweets About Booze, Weed, And Coke In Real Time
KELLY DICKERSON

Business Insider FEB. 14, 2014,


"Twitter is an incredible resource for insight into what's popular: It's a good indicator of what cool new tech is trending and what news story is being talked about most. But what if you could use it to monitor what drugs are trending and being talked about the most?

A new site called Drug Talk on Twitter is doing exactly that. It mines the Twitterverse for tweets containing the words weed, alcohol, LSD, cocaine, or meth, and then keeps a running record of how many people are tweeting about each drug today, last week, last month, and since the site began operating at the beginning of the year."



"You can see that as the weekend gets closer and people are gearing up for a night out, the alcohol-related tweets go up — a whopping 43% from Thursday to Friday."

Continued http://www.businessinsider.com/drugs-and-alcohol-on-twitter-2014-2

 

[slimvictor]

Weed wins!

 

[bit_pattern]

#420AllDayEveryDay

 

[ro4eva]

I bet it's run by the NSA.

 

[Roger&Me]

lol nsa doesn't give a fuck who does drugs

 

[ro4eva]

lol nsa doesn't give a fuck who does drugs

I should have worded it differently, but it was a poor attempt at making a funny.

 

[Roger&Me]

lol as was mine

 

[S.J.B.]

Some of these are pretty funny out of context.

 

[TheRapperGoneBad]

Where the opiates at?

 

[95Land]

You'd think the meth users would be more prolific.

 

[TheRapperGoneBad]

They are probably paranoid that they are being tracked by such tweets and opiate users are probably to busy noddin out to tweet there actions. Lol

 

[ro4eva]

Ecstasy users are too busy dancing and hugging random strangers while looking like this ---->

"It's... party time!"

"... Got any gum?"

Facial response of sober random strangers being hugged and asked for gum --->