Word usage mirrors community structure in the online social network Twitter

EPJ Data Science

Table 1 Language patterns of communities

Community	Language feature	Number of occurrences
n**ga, poppin, chillin	shortened endings (‘er’ → ‘a’ or ‘ing’ → ‘in’)	50
pln, edtech, edublogs	amalgamated words	31
anipals, pawsome, furever	animal based puns	31
bieber, pleasee, <33	lengthened endings (repeated last letter)	28
kstew, robsessed, twilighters	amalgamations/puns around Twilight movie genre	28
tdd, mvc, linq	acronyms	25
kradam, glambert, glamily	puns around pop star Adam Lambert	15

Language patterns found in communities from Figure 1. We looked at the top 100 words used significantly more than the rest of the population for each community, identified language patterns, and counted the number of occurrences. A word has been starred to avoid offence.