Tweets reveal news readership patterns around the world
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 20:00
in Mathematics & Economics
In a new article, researchers used data collected from Twitter to study readers' news preferences across the globe and discovered that different countries have stronger preference towards different types of articles -- American and British readers are more drawn to opinion and world news, Spaniards to local and national news, Brazilians to sports and arts, and Germans to politics and economy.