Association of an emotional influencer to a post in a social medium

A computer program product for associating an emotional influencer to a post, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory medium per se, the program instructions being executable by a device to cause the device to perform a method comprising:

• determining an emotional baseline for a user;
• detecting a post by the user on a social medium;
• analyzing content of the post to determine an emotion of the user based on the content of the post;
• determining a difference between the emotion of the user associated with the post and the emotional baseline of the user;
• determining an emotional influencer of the post in response to the difference between the emotion of the user associated with the post and the emotional baseline of the user exceeding a preset threshold, wherein the emotional influencer comprises a cause of the emotion of the user in creating the post or that is emotionally affecting the user during creation of the post and wherein determining the emotional influencer comprises at least one of:
• reviewing a timeline of activities of the user;
• reviewing a set of news headlines or publicized events;
• presenting the emotional influencer related to the post to the user;
• providing an option comprising a list of alternate emotional influencers for selection by the user for tagging to the post, each alternate emotional influencer being a possible cause of the emotion of the user in creating the post or that is emotionally affecting the user during creation of the post;
• and
• tagging a selected alternate emotional influencer from the list of alternate emotional influencers to the post in response to the user selecting the alternate emotional influencer as the cause of the emotion of the user in creating the post or that is emotionally affecting the user during creation of the post.