 In tweets with the word loneliness, users less often describe their own experiences (e.g., “The level of loneliness I’ve reached is at an all time high”), and more often make general statements (e.g., “we don’t know how to appreciate loneliness”) and quote celebrities and literary sources (e.g., “If you are afraid of loneliness, don’t marry. -Anton Chekhov”), than in tweets with the words lonely and solitude.
we identify words that are associated with the SOLO query terms, loneliness, lonely, and solitude, i.e., words that tend to appear in tweets with these query terms more often than they do in the General Tweet Corpus.