You're Giving Away Your Gender With Each Tweet [STUDY]

If you’re trying to hang on to some shred of anonymity on Twitter, you’re going to have a tough time ahead: new research shows that a single tweet can disclose the gender of the tweeter.

By isolating specific words in a single tweet, researchers from the Mitre Corporation were able to guess the gender of the Tweeter 66 percent of the time. And if they examined the whole steam of tweets in that user’s timeline, the accuracy jumped to over 75 percent.