Who Tweets about Science?
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Twitter is currently one of the primary venues for online information dissemination. Although its detractors portray it as nothing more than an exercise in narcissism and banality, Twitter is also used to share news stories and other information that may be of interest to a person’s followers. The current study sampled tweeters who had tweeted at least one link to an article in one of four leading journals, with a focus on studying who, precisely, these tweeters were. The results showed that approximately 76% of the sampled accounts were maintained by individuals (rather than organizations), 67% of these accounts were maintained by a single man, and 34.4% of the individuals were identified as possessing a Ph.D, suggesting that the population of Twitter users who tweet links to academic articles does not reflect the demographics of the general public. In addition, the vast majority of students and academics were associated with some form of science, indicating that interest in scientific journals is limited to individuals in related fields of study. Conference Topic Altmetrics
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