E-Motive Software - real-time populace mood assessment

Loughborough University has created software that tracks 2000 tweets per second, to assess the public mood.

The spin on it claims it could help Police predict crimes:

Aaudio of BBC news item:

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Daily Mail reprt:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ts-second.html

New Scientist report of something by the same name covering voicemail from earlier:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...-emotions.html