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Table 25 Results for the person’s characteristic Birth year

From: Celebrity profiling through linguistic analysis of digital social networks

Category

Description

The 1980s

A total generational change is evident in the 5 groups of features analyzed in the model, which means they repeatedly use almost all the features, except for the retweets. The lexical diversity is not as marked as in previous generations and they do not use personal pronouns in the singular second-person nor plural third person.

The 1990s

This generation uses texts with all the elements of the network, the non-use of singular second-person pronoun distinguishes syntactic analysis.

The 2000s

The corpus of this decade use hashtags to a lesser extent but it is more frequent the use of other features on the social network. Lexical diversity is more extensive than others, and the corpus are of a short length. They do not use the singular and plural third-person pronouns.

The 2010s

These profiles have very unequal corpus between the different profiles. Hashtags are the most common and highly used features and it is evident the use of the plural first-person pronoun.