Mislove et al., "Understanding the Demographics of Twitter Users" (2011)
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Alan Mislove, Sune Lehmann, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Jukka-Pekka Onnela, and J. Niels Rosenquist, Proceedings of the Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (2011)
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@inproceedings{mislove2011demotwitter,
author = {Alan Mislove and Sune Lehmann and Yong-Yeol Ahn and Jukka-Pekka Onnela and J. Niels Rosenquist},
title = {Understanding the Demographics of Twitter Users},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media},
doi = {10.1609/icwsm.v5i1.14168},
year = {2011},
}
Comparisons along geography, gender, and race or ethnicity show that Twitter users were a highly non-uniform sample of the U.S. population—a demographic Sampling bias.