Amanda French ran the numbers and concluded thatnearly half (48 percent) of attendees at the Digital Humanities 2009 conference weretweeting the sessions. By contrast, only 3 percent of MLA convention attendeestweeted; according to French’s data, out of about 7,800 attendees at the MLAconvention only 256 tweeted. Of these, the vast majority were people already associated with digital humanities through their existing networks of followers.

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