New paper thread! “Fame and Ultrafame: Measuring and comparing daily levels of ‘being talked about’ for United States’ presidents, their rivals, God, countries, and K-pop” Available here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00149 We look at raw fame on Twitter for five major US political figures at the day scale from 2008 to 2019: Barack Obama, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump. You’ve probably heard of them which is what fame is all about. ...

New paper threeaaad!!! Soooooo, we went exploring for stretchable words on Twitter, and we uncovered a strange and amusing realm of language: “Hahahahaha, Duuuuude, Yeeessss!: A two-parameter characterization of stretchable words and the dynamics of mistypings and misspellings”. Stretchable words are undeniably real ...