@article{Mislove_Lehmann_Ahn_Onnela_Rosenquist_2021, title={Understanding the Demographics of Twitter Users}, volume={5}, url={https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/14168}, DOI={10.1609/icwsm.v5i1.14168}, abstractNote={ <p> Every second, the thoughts and feelings of millions of people across the world are recorded in the form of 140-character tweets using Twitter. However, despite the enormous potential presented by this remarkable data source, we still do not have an understanding of the Twitter population itself: Who are the Twitter users? How representative of the overall population are they? In this paper, we take the first steps towards answering these questions by analyzing data on a set of Twitter users representing over 1% of the U.S. population. We develop techniques that allow us to compare the Twitter population to the U.S. population along three axes (geography, gender, and race/ethnicity), and find that the Twitter population is a highly non-uniform sample of the population. </p> }, number={1}, journal={Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media}, author={Mislove, Alan and Lehmann, Sune and Ahn, Yong-Yeol and Onnela, Jukka-Pekka and Rosenquist, J.}, year={2021}, month={Aug.}, pages={554-557} }