There are plenty of different tools out there to help you get more out of Twitter. From tracking details of your followers. It’s not hard to see what people are talking about on Twitter, but it can be hard to see how people are feeling about what’s being said in the Twitterverse.
Tweetfeel let’s you put in a search term and through the magic of some "insanely complex sentiment analysis" identifies the emotions. Let’s give it a try.
I did a search on "poverty", thinking that would be a good term that people might be talking about these days and have a little bit of activity.
Here are the results:
Looking for the keyword "poverty" the Tweetfeel tool parses through the other words used in context with the search term and tracks them based on the general meanings behind the other words.
Searching for words like "like", "hate", "fun" and others you can get an idea of the general tone and feelings people have about a topic. Pretty interesting if you think about the potential. Get a general idea about topics and then do your part to support or change the topic the way you want.