Microblogs such as Twitter, Sina Weibo (a popular Chinese microblog service) and Facebook have received increasing attention in diverse research communities (Han and Baldwin, 2011;Hawn, 2009, inter alia).
to traditional text domains that use carefully controlled, standardized language, microblog content is often informal, with less adherence to conventions regarding punctuation, spelling, and style, and with a higher proportion of dialect or pronouciation-derived orthography.