10:00-10:30 arrival and welcome
10:30-11:10 George Bailey (Manchester) – Regional variation in 140 characters: mapping geospatial tweets
11:10-11:40 Jonathan Stevenson (York) – Mapping regional variation in the ditransitive in British English using geo-located Twitter data
11:40-12:10 coffee break
12:10-12:40 Mercedes Durham (Cardiff) – Navigating Twitter data: distinguishing treasure from dead ends
12:40-1:10 Christian Ilbury (QMUL) – ‘Sassy Queens’: Stylistic Orthographic Variation and Stance in Twitter
1:10-2:30 lunch
2:30-3:00 Laura Bailey & Christina Kim (Kent) – Tracking a shift in focus particle usage using Twitter
3:00-3:30 Clément Thibert & Jean-Philippe Magué (ENS Lyon) – Twitter as Corpus for Sociolinguistic Variationist Studies: Challenges of Using Sketchy Data
3:30-4:10 David Willis (Cambridge) – Using Twitter to investigate the diffusion of syntactic innovations
4:10-6:30 coffee and discussion