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Tracking changes among Environmental and Politics Twitter users: (A) the proportion of users that were active in each 15-day window; (B) the rate of change in the proportion of active users for both samples. In both plots, the points depict the observed data while the color band with a broken line shows the 99% confidence interval based on a bootstrap sample of the data. The broken vertical line corresponds to April 25, 2022, when the Twitter board accepted Musk’s initial purchase offer, and the heavier broken line corresponds to October 28, 2022, when Musk’s takeover was finalized. Image credit: Chang et al., doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.07.002.

Study: Twitter May Have Lost Half of Environmentally-Oriented Users Since Elon Musk Took Over

Aug 16, 2023 by Sergio Prostak

In a study sample of 380,000 environmentally oriented users, nearly 47.5% became inactive on Twitter (recently renamed X) after it was sold in October...

Tweets can provide rich information about people’s social, cognitive, and biological processes as well as personal concerns. Image credit: Pexels.

Study: Night Owls Send More Negative Tweets than Early Birds

May 27, 2021 by News Staff

A new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science is the first to focus on several relevant but overlooked comparisons in temporal patterns...

Flu Outbreaks Trackable with Twitter

Jan 30, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Scientists at Brigham Young University say posts on Twitter could be helpful to health officials looking for a head start on flu outbreaks. In a study,...

Study Reveals What Social Networks May Know About Non-Members

May 2, 2012 by News Staff

A team of German scientists has revealed what online social networks on the internet may know about persons who are friends of members, but have no user...