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Daily prevalence of US Twitter users who include pronouns in their profile bio

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English: In the Computational Social Science of Emerging Realities Group, we study identity using social media data. Specifically, we have examined the text of Twitter profile bios to reveal trends in identity change.

Here we describe the rapidly growing prevalence of "pronoun-slash-lists" within Twitter bios of US users. A pronoun-slash-list (PSL) is a list of two or three pronouns separated by slashes, e.g. "he/him." For simplicity, we have limited our inquiry to three common PSLs: she/her, he/him and they/them.

In a longitudinal sample of over a million Twitter users, we observe that the prevalence of each PSL grew significantly from February 2015 to December 2020.

The inset measures the same phenomenon in another way. In this case, we measure prevalence of the word "pronouns" within bios. The use of "pronouns" in bio text frequently (but not always) signals discussion of personal pronouns. Use of this word within bios increased seven-fold (from 2 per 10,000 to 14 per 10,000) from 2015 to 2020.

As is plain to see in the visualization, she/her has seen the fastest growth in prevalence, followed by he/him and they/them. Prevalence of the PSLs she/them and he/them (not shown) is less than they/them. In the future, as we develop this project, we will estimate the prevalence of other pronouns and PSL combinations and continue analysis up to the present date.
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