A total of 38 million Twitter messages were collected from 30,000 users, with geographic information included in 2 million of the posts. Also determined in the study, on the basis of users’ geographical information, was their place of residence to the level of municipality and region. Users’ languages were identified with the help of automated language detection. Finnish and English as the dominant languages“As expected, the dominant languages on the Finnish Twitter are Finnish and English,” says Assistant Professor Tuomo Hiippala. “Still, it’s important to keep in mind that Twitter users are not representative of the entire population,” Hiippala notes.
