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Does Twitter Prefer Analytic or Continental Philosophy?

Does Twitter Prefer Analytic or Continental Philosophy?

The debate between analytic and continental philosophy has raged for decades, but did you ever wonder who was winning? Will Russell or Hegel get you more retweets? What words and concepts to the denizens of twitter associate with each tradition? In this post we look at Twitter’s perceptions of Analytic and Continental philosophy to see if we can glean any sense of which philosophical tradition the Twitterverse is more amenable to.