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Twitter tribes

If you think Twitter is all people talking about what they just had for lunch, think again.
Although food can be a feature of the social network, analysis of millions of tweets has shown that Twitter users form ‘tribes’.

These tribes have their own language, and are often based around a community of interest – whether that’s work, a hobby, or political interests.

The analysis also found the users in a community will misspell words in the same way. One example is Justin Bieber fans, who often add ‘ee’ to the end of words.

The research team hopes the data gathered from the project, which has been running since 2009, could offer a more accurate insight into the changing language used by different communities on Twitter. By learning these languages researchers hope new ways will emerge of engaging with Twitter tribes – rather simply using conventional Twitter features such as hashtags. (Source: Guardian Data Blog)

Fascinating.