Deborah McMurray, “Have You Heard About ‘Twitterology?’” (LexisNexis blog, Nov. 18, 2011)
Ben Zimmer is a self-described all-around word nut. He is the former On Language columnist for The New York Times Magazine, the executive producer of VisualThesaurus.com (an entirely useful tool when you’re looking to add color to your prose) and vocabulary.com.
In a recent New York Times Sunday Review column where he claims that “Twitterology” is the latest hot new science, he writes that “Twitter is many things to many people, but lately it has been a gold mine for scholars in fields like linguistics, sociology and psychology who are looking for real-time data to analyze.”
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