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by lince 4983 days ago
Maybe other people does not appreciate your work, but my girlfriend (who study marketing) and me have gained some insight about Twitter users and countries with Internet access [1].

Great work and thank you!

[1] I know this last is arguable: In some countries, Twitter is not the main microblogging service.

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You might want to take a look at this for a view on Twitter Demographics:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/amislove/publications/Twitter-IC...

and this for how one might be able to do "serious" predictions using Twitter as a proxy:

http://www.bgoncalves.com/component/jdownloads/finish/3/39.h...