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Who Tweets in Italian? Demographic Characteristics of Twitter Users

verfasst von : Righi Alessandra, Mauro M. Gentile, Domenico M. Bianco

Erschienen in: New Statistical Developments in Data Science

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In this paper we try for the first time to shed light on the use of Twitter by the Italian speaking users quantifying the total audience and some relevant characteristics: in particular, gender and location. The attempt is based on publicly available APIs data referring both to profile documents and tweets. Through real-time calculation is possible to infer the gender mainly using the name field of the users’ profile, while the geo-location is deduced using the location field and the geotagged tweets.

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Titel: Who Tweets in Italian? Demographic Characteristics of Twitter Users
verfasst von: Righi Alessandra
Mauro M. Gentile
Domenico M. Bianco
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: New Statistical Developments in Data Science
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-21157-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-21158-5

Copyright-Jahr: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21158-5_25

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