Quantifying regional differences in the length of Twitter messages.
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 25853678.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0122278 and PMC identifier 4390308.
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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.
Medical subject headings
- Internet
- Social Media