Abstract
Emoji are widely used to express emotions and concepts on social media, and prior work has shown that users’ choice of emoji reflects the way that they wish to present themselves to the world. Emoji usage is typically studied in the context of posts made by users, and this view has provided important insights into phenomena such as emotional expression and self-representation. In addition to making posts, however, social media platforms like Twitter allow for users to provide a short bio, which is an opportunity to briefly describe their account as a whole. In this work, we focus on the use of emoji in these bio statements. We explore the ways in which users include emoji in these self-descriptions, finding different patterns than those observed around emoji usage in tweets. We examine the relationships between emoji used in bios and the content of users’ tweets, showing that the topics and even the average sentiment of tweets varies for users with different emoji in their bios. Lastly, we confirm that homophily effects exist with respect to the types of emoji that are included in bios of users and their followers.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science |
Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
Pages | 199-211 |
Number of pages | 13 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-952148-80-4 |
Publication status | Published - 20 Nov 2020 |
Event | Fourth Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science Workshop @ EMNLP 2020 - Virtual event Duration: 20 Nov 2020 → 20 Nov 2020 https://sites.google.com/site/nlpandcss/home?authuser=0 |
Workshop
Workshop | Fourth Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science Workshop @ EMNLP 2020 |
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Abbreviated title | NLP+CSS 2020 |
City | Virtual event |
Period | 20/11/20 → 20/11/20 |
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