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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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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122278
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 | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| 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 | ||||||||
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| 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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