Nighttime social media posts can reveal the state of sleeplessness across the country, with new "social sensing approach" demonstrated by researchers in analyzing US sleep trends during the COVID-19 pandemic
Article URL : https://plos.io/4zFRISO
Article title: Sleepless in America: A social sensing study of pandemic-era sleeplessness using nighttime social media data
Author countries: USA.
Funding: This work was supported by the University of New Mexico Office of the Vice President for Research, WeR1 Faculty Success Program, https://research.unm.edu/ , to XG; the University of New Mexico Office of the Vice President for Research, Research Allocations Committee (RAC) awards, https://research.unm.edu/ , (Grant Nos. #8oh6a4x35h and #gvvrxwyj64) to XG; the University of New Mexico FRESSH Pilot Program, https://research.unm.edu/ , to XG; the University of New Mexico College of Arts & Sciences Interdisciplinary Science Cooperative through the Office of Research, https://arts.unm.edu/research/ , (Faculty Team Research Concept Competition Award #TA-1003) to XG; and the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, https://www.icds.psu.edu/ , Rising Researcher Award (RRID:SCR_025154) to XG. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
PLOS One
Sleepless in America: A social sensing study of pandemic-era sleeplessness using nighttime social media data
9-Sep-2026
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.