One of my favourite English usage websites confirmed my suspicion. The headline should have used "number" (or "proportion", as used in the article itself) instead of "amount", since Twitter users are countable.
Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Amount of users?
I read this headline and thought the word "amount" might not be right, but wasn't sure why.
One of my favourite English usage websites confirmed my suspicion. The headline should have used "number" (or "proportion", as used in the article itself) instead of "amount", since Twitter users are countable.
One of my favourite English usage websites confirmed my suspicion. The headline should have used "number" (or "proportion", as used in the article itself) instead of "amount", since Twitter users are countable.
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