2.8 Million Twitter Users Are Australian [STUDY]

A new study shows just how popular the 140-character network is Down Under.

The study, by Queensland University of Technology’s Social Media Research Group, explores the entire global Twitter population in order to determine which accounts are Australian.

Using Twitter’s API, the research team retrieved public profile information from over 750 million accounts in existence up to late 2013. They then filtered by terminology related to Australia, such as 50 of the largest population areas in the country and the eight Australian timezones.