• hark@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    and deny internet archeologists of the future this goldmine? I don’t think so!

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      1 year ago

      Not to mention linguists. I read a book (Because Internet, by Gretchen McCulloch, great read) that cited many studies that used Twitter as their primary source. Basically, the linguists used Tweets as a way to understand how people talk causally on the internet; what is more causal than a Tweet?