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Harvard researchers recently conducted a study of Twitter. Among its conclusions: women and men both tend to follow men rather than women (reversing a trend in online social networks, where men often follow the lead of women), and the top 10% of prolific Twitter users account for over 90% of tweets. Oxford University Press has also been looking at Twitter; check out their blog. Some bloggers are worrying that Twitter will degrade the language. Is Twitter for the birds ?

 

 

 

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