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SANCHEZ-ZARATE, Alejandro. Who tweets? Sociodemographic profile of Twitter users in Mexico and the Mexico City Metropolitan Zone in 2018. Estud. demogr. urbanos [online]. 2023, vol.38, n.1, pp.55-95.  Epub 12-Mayo-2023. ISSN 2448-6515.  https://doi.org/10.24201/edu.v38i1.2104.

Recently, Twitter has become a relevant media of information for public life, academia and general people. However, there is a gap in the knowledge about the Twitter user profile. Therefore, the target of this paper is to identify the sociodemographic profile of Twitter users on two geographic scales: at Metropolitan Zone of Mexico City and national. For this, the ENDUTIH 2018 survey is utilized, from which are retrieved sociodemographic characteristics, and it is implemented a mixed effected logit model over data. The main results are similar to those reported in international literature over the subject. At the same time, some findings are particular for the Mexican context. On one side, it has been found an over-representation of young, middle and high education people and the positive effect of number of digital devices and probability of Twitter use. On the other hand, on a metropolitan context, it has been found that decreases the negative effects of certain demographic characteristics on probability of Twitter use, e.g., elderly people. Additionally, it has been identified some pervasive gap on both analyzed geographic scales.

Palabras llave : digital inequality; Twitter; digital divide; social networks Sites; Twitter and city.

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