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What’s In Your [Twitter] Name?

An almost trivial study of Twitter usernames

What I like about a good data collection and processing project is that many meaningless but exciting side results are obtained for free in addition to the main result.

For example, many Twitter account names consist of an alphabetic part and a numeric part (say, HungWang10). The user may add a numeric suffix…