Situations in 140 characters: Assessing real-world situations on twitter

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Serfass, David G ^a   Sherman, Ryne A ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MODEL; SOCIAL MEDIA; URBAN AREA; VALIDATION PROCESS; WORKING TIME; ALGORITHM; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SEEKING; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; TRENDS; URBAN POPULATION;

ALGORITHMS; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; MALE; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84958561954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143051     Document Type: Article

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