Digital Trends - Researchers with the Mitre corporation have developed a method toÂ*accuratelyÂ*guess gender by isolating specific words in a tweet. Twitter does not collect gender within profiles making this a perfect testing ground for theÂ*algorithm. The team first collected the Â*location, description, profile name and real name of all Twitter users in the sample. Most of the Twitter users in the sample size has only posted one time on the social service. An opening test was to see if theÂ*algorithm could detect a personâ
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