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<![CDATA[Do You Have A Twitter ‘Accent’?]]>
With 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. One study found that tweets often use words and spellings that are consistent with — and unique to — the user’s region, reflecting local accents and terminology. Jacob Eistenstein (Interactive Computing) says the team is continuing its research to find out how new words, terms and acronyms move between cities.Source: Here & Now
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