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This document discusses using social media data from Twitter as a proxy for estimating GDP at the country level. The author finds that the volume of geo-located tweets from 2012-2013 can explain 87% of the variation in GDP across countries. Additionally, estimates are more accurate for countries with more reliable GDP data. Compared to nightlight data, Twitter explains slightly more variance in GDP. The author also uses Twitter to create monthly and weekly GDP estimates for the US and sub-national estimates

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ΣΤΑΥΡΟΣ

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