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Do All Birds Tweet the Same? Characterizing Twitter Around the World Barbara Poblete Ruth Garcia Marcelo Mendoza Alejandro Jaimes {bpoblete,ruthgavi,mendozam,ajaimes}@ Department of Computer Science, University of Chile, Chile Yahoo! Research Latin-America, Chile Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile ABSTRACT 1. INTRODUCTION Social media services have spread throughout the world in just a The use of social media has grown tremendously all over the few years. They have become not only a new source of informa- world in recent years, and the impact of such growth has expanded tion, but also new mechanisms for societies world-wide to organize in unexpected ways. Twitter, in particular, has become the most themselves and communicate. Therefore, social media has a very widely used microblogging service, and messages posted on it, strong impact in many aspects – at personal level, in business, and in many ways, reflected real life events– from the revolutions in in politics, among many others. In spite of its fast adoption, lit- Tunisia and Egypt, to natural disasters such as the Chilean and tle is known about social media usage in different countries, and Japanese earthquakes. Twitter users, h