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Understanding the Demographics of Twitter Users
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Every second, the thoughts and feelings of millions of people across the world are recorded in the form of 140-character tweets using Twitter. However, despite the enormous potential presented by this remarkable data source, we still do not have an understanding of the Twitter population itself: Who are the Twitter users? How representative of the overall population are they? In this paper, we take the first steps towards answering these questions by analyzing data on a set of Twitter users representing over 1% of the U.S. population. We develop techniques that allow us to compare the Twitter population to the U.S. population along three axes (geography, gender, and race/ethnicity), and find that the Twitter population is a highly non-uniform sample of the population.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Mislove, A., Lehmann, S., Ahn, Y.-Y., Onnela, J.-P., & Rosenquist, J.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
- Published
- 2021-08-03
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 554-557
- ISSN
- 2162-3449 (ISSN-L)
- 2334-0770
- OpenAlex
- W2167102709
- Cited by
- 759
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 70.83
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
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