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Quantifying regional differences in the length of Twitter messages

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Alis, Christian M., Lim, May T., Moat, Helen Susannah, Barchiesi, Daniele, Preis, Tobias and Bishop, Steven R. (2015) Quantifying regional differences in the length of Twitter messages. PLoS One, Volume 10 (Number 4). Article number e0122278. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0122278

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Abstract

The increasing usage of social media for conversations, together with the availability of its data to researchers, provides an opportunity to study human conversations on a large scale. Twitter, which allows its users to post messages of up to a limit of 140 characters, is one such social media. Previous studies of utterances in books, movies and Twitter have shown that most of these utterances, when transcribed, are much shorter than 140 characters. Furthermore, the median length of Twitter messages was found to vary across US states. Here, we investigate whether the length of Twitter messages varies across different regions in the UK. We find that the median message length, depending on grouping, can differ by up to 2 characters.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science
Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Online social networks, Twitter, Conversation
Journal or Publication Title: PLoS One
Publisher: Public Library of Science
ISSN: 1932-6203
Official Date: 8 April 2015
Dates:
DateEvent
8 April 2015Published
17 February 2015Accepted
22 November 2014Submitted
Volume: Volume 10
Number: Number 4
Article Number: Article number e0122278
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122278
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access
Funder: Research Councils UK (RCUK)
Grant number: EP/KO39830/1 (RCUK)
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