Where Tweets Are Born: The Top Countries On Twitter
Posted in: Internet Use/New Technologies at 09/07/2012 14:09
Call it the United States of Tweets. According to a study by the Oxford Internet Institute that examined which countries use Twitter the most, citizens in the U.S. interact with Twitter more than any other country, followed by Brazil, Indonesia, and the United Kingdom.
"The six largest countries in terms of information production through Twitter are: (1) the United States, (2) Brazil, (3) Indonesia, (4) the United Kingdom, (5) Mexico, and (6) Malaysia," the Oxford Internet Institute wrote in its report. "It is interesting to note that only two of the countries on that list are in the Global North and are traditional hubs of the production of codified knowledge."
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www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/06/top-countries-on-twitter_n_1653915.html
Also see:
A Geography of Twitter
Online social media has become an integral part of daily life for many Internet users and there are now hundreds of millions utilising these services around the world. Concomitant with this growth of usage is a desire by companies, government agencies, and academics to study and map the data trails left by people using services like Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook. The data shadows and information trails left by users online reveal social, economic, and political processes and practices.
Twitter, in particular, is repeatedly used as a repository of social data because of its relatively open network that allows researchers access to almost any information published through the platform. Yet, despite the many studies (both inside and outside of academia) that draw on data from Twitter, there is little scholarship devoted to the geography of Twitter.
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