Communications of the ACM
Social Media Algorithm Says Trump 'tweets Like a Bachelor'
Researchers who have developed an algorithm that predicts a user's marital status say Donald Trump tweets like a bachelor.
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Researchers at ITMO University in Russia have developed an algorithm that predicts a user's marital status with 86-percent accuracy using data from Twitter, Foursquare, and Instagram.
However, the algorithm identified U.S. President Donald Trump, who is married, as single, according to his social media activity.
The researchers concluded the inconsistency was due to Trump's abnormal activity in the media, indicating he uses Twitter like a bachelor.
The researchers say the personality-characterizing algorithm could be used to identify illegal groups, or to find people prone to depression and suicide.
ITMO's Kseniya Buraya is studying approaches for describing human personality through social networks. Buraya processes user data with the new algorithm and then adapts the information to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, a scale of psychological types based on Jung theses.
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