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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Sophie Bushwick. Got a minute?
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2 .About six million people worldwide post to Twitter, producing some 650,000 new tweets daily.
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3 .And one percent of these posts include geographic locations.
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4 .The combination of language and location has allowed scientists to calculate the dominant language of any given region.
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5 .They presented their work at the American Physical Society's March Meeting.
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6 .The researchers gained free access to a tenth of all tweets, which they ran through an automated language detector.
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7 .Throwing Twitter languages onto a map revealed highly accurate borders for European countries, a good proof of concept for the effort.
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8 .On a much smaller scale, Twitter language geography reflected the small pockets of Korean and Russian concentrations within New York City.
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9 .The Twitter tracking method has its biases.
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10 .English is the dominant language of the internet, which skews the language distribution in bilingual cities like Montreal.
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11 .And, obviously, the scientists can't analyze areas where people don't use Twitter.
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12 .But overall, the study shows that Twitter can provide cheap and useful information.
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13 .In other words, people tend to speak what they Tweet.
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14 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Sophie Bushwick.
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