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28 March 2024

Aussies send 5000 tweets a minute

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Australians send 5000 tweets a minute according to AAP.

A national study on Twitter that analysed words associated with emotions found people in the nation's capital were the most anxious, aggressive and sad, particularly when compared to the upbeat West Australians.

The data was collated by importing all tweets generated by Australians over an eight-week period into a piece of software created by University of Technology Sydney (UTS). The results were analysed and broken down into sociographic categories.

Sydneysiders tweet the most but Melbournians were more sociable, with the highest amount of mentions on Twitter.

Adelaideans are the most affectionate tweeters, Hobart sends the most tweets per capital and Brisbane takes out the silver medal when it comes to profanity, after Sydney.

Advertising agency The Works revealed the study's results showed Australians send 234 million tweets per month on average or 5000 per minute.

Fifty-four per cent of women tweet, and 58 per cent of all tweets posted from Australians come out of Sydney and Melbourne.