Do Women Tweet Differently Than Men? And Other Interesting Uses of the Twitter API

Twitter is not just for tweeting anymore. With the access to Twitter’s functionality and data through it’s API, researchers and the general public alike have the ability to build their own applications to do just about anything. Take for instance, Martin Robbins, science blogger for the Guardian. He wanted to answer the loaded question… Do women science bloggers tweet differently to men?

In the old days, one would have had to create a screen scraping bot to view the timelines of all of the accounts in the study and save the pages to a database where the data could be tagged and analyzed.

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