Research reveals the way you tweet 'can reveal how much money you make'

The news comes from an academic research carried out by Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro , who together with a team found that income can be revealed on Twitter through actual posts.

Preoţiuc-Pietro, from the Positive Psychology Centre at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, worked with Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, University College London and Microsoft Research in Cambridge.

The conclusion stated: "We found that the proportion of tweets using vocabulary related to fear or joy, the ratios of tweets with links and retweets as well as topics discovered in the textual content have high predictive power.

"We also discovered that users perceived to be female, younger, African American, with lower education level, or anxious are associated with lower rates of income."

"On the other hand, users with higher income post less emotional (positive and negative) but more neutral content, exhibiting more anger and fear, but less surprise, sadness and disgust," he continued.

The research concluded that "Finally, through an analysis on user language, we were able to highlight latent topics that discriminate users with high and low income, such as politics, specific technology topics or swear words.

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