Ipseology
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2024 National Dog Day and Twitter Bios
Estimating prevalence for dog and cat signifiers in US users' Twitter bios
2024-08-26
It's National Dog Day!
On Ipseology Central, we'll mark the day the same way we celebrate every holiday: inspecting self-authored self-descriptions!
Do Americans mention their dogs when describing themselves?
Yes! In 2022, dog was the 216th most popular word (out of 16,470) within US Twitter bios. That ranks dog above cat (305th) and way above snake (8744th).
In the figure below, you'll see the prevalence of dog within bios generally increased over time. It's the same story for dog mom and dog dad. Dogs edged out cats as well.
What's the score on emojis?
Sorry 🐈 and 🐱. 🐕 and 🐶 were top dog!.
Prevalence? Signifier?
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Ipseology - Read and explore more
- Search for trends on any set of words, phrases or emojis: Jason Jeffrey Jones Identity Trends
- Read a blog post about the Ukraine flag emoji: Ukraine Flag Emoji 🇺🇦 Prevalence in US Users' Twitter Bios
- Read a peer-reviewed, open-access research article about signifiers in 32 nations: HINENI: Human Identity across the Nations of the Earth Ngram Investigator