Quantifying regional differences in the length of Twitter messages

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Alis, Christian M ^a   Lim, May T ^b   Moat, Helen Susannah ^c   Barchiesi, Daniele ^a   Preis, Tobias ^c   Bishop, Steven R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b National Institute of Physics University of the Philippines Diliman ^*  (Philippines)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SOFTWARE; CONVERSATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INFORMATION SERVICE; ONLINE ANALYSIS; PARAMETERS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; TWITTER MESSAGE LENGTH; UNITED KINGDOM; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION;

COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; INTERNET; SOCIAL MEDIA; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84929484670     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122278     Document Type: Article

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