{"238571":{"#nid":"238571","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Do You Have A Twitter \u2018Accent\u2019?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWith 500 million users and 500 tweets a day, the social networking site Twitter has changed the way we communicate. It also changes the way we write.\u0026nbsp;One\u0026nbsp;study\u0026nbsp;found that tweets often use words and spellings that are consistent with \u2014 and unique to \u2014 the user\u2019s region, reflecting local accents and terminology.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EJacob Eistenstein (Interactive Computing)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;says the team is continuing its research to find out how new words, terms and acronyms move between cities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESource: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hereandnow.wbur.org\/2013\/09\/04\/twitter-accent-study\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHere \u0026amp; Now\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27592","created_gmt":"2013-09-18 12:55:58","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:40","author":"Joshua Preston","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Clark Whittington","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/hereandnow.wbur.org\/2013\/09\/04\/twitter-accent-study","dateline":{"date":"2013-09-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-09-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}