They collected 300,000 tweets with three biggest trending hashtags: #IndiaNeedsOxygen, #PakistanStandsWithIndia and #EndiaSaySorryToKashmir – the last a reference to the long-running dispute over the Himalayan territory.
The researchers then ran the text from these tweets into a “hope speech classifier” – a language processing tool that helps detect positive comments.
If you search randomly, you’ll find positive tweets a little over 44% of the time.