In this paper we try for the first time to shed light on the use of Twitter by the Italian speaking users quantifying the total audience and some relevant characteristics: in particular, gender and location. The attempt is based on publicly available APIs data referring both to profile documents and tweets. Through real-time calculation is possible to infer the gender mainly using the name field of the users’ profile, while the geo-location is deduced using the location field and the geotagged tweets.
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Alessandra, R., Gentile, M. M., & Bianco, D. M. (2019). Who tweets in italian? Demographic characteristics of twitter users. In Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics (Vol. 288, pp. 329–344). Springer New York LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21158-5_25
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