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Why Tweets From the Over-30s Are No Measure of Age
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Looks like 30 is the age at which everyone grows up on Twitter. It's nearly impossible for computers to guess the age of people on the network by analyzing the type of language they use once they leave their 20s, researchers in the Netherlands have found.
They found that while their software could take a decent stab at guessing a tweeter's age if they were between 17 and 30, it was much harder to age older users correctly. They found that language use in Twitter's 140-character missives barely changes with their advancing years, rendering age guesses over 30 pretty useless.
From New Scientist
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