A new research revealed that one can get a pretty good idea of whether an American is conservative or liberal by just looking at his or her Twitter feed.

"Language encodes who we are, how we think and what we feel," Matthew Purver and Karolina Sylwester penned in a study published in the journal PLOS ONE this weekend. "Even in a noisy Twitter data set, patterns of language use are consistent with findings obtained through classical psychology methods."

Those methods generally implicate surveys; survey-takers sometimes give answers that are more socially acceptable than honest, Los Angeles Times informed. "Even though only about 14% of American adults are on Twitter, their tweets have the advantage of being more candid," the duo, both members of the Cognitive Science Research Group at Queen Mary University of London, wrote.

The researchers gathered together all the Twitter users who were following the @TheDemocrats, @HouseDemocrats, @SenateDems, @GOP, @HouseGOP, and @Senate_GOPs accounts. The pair detached anyone who followed feeds from both sides of the aisle, leaving 363,348 presumed Democrats and 316,590 Republicans.

Then, a total of 17,000 people from each party were randomly selected from that group and eliminated users who kept their tweets private. The two were able to examine 457,372 tweets by 5,373 Democrats and 466,386 tweets by 5,386 Republicans.

The study revealed that certain words were more likely tweeted by liberals and others were more likely to be tweeted by conservatives. For example, Democrats were 3.7 times more likely to write about "Bridgegate and 6.51 times more likely to type "birther." Moreover, Republicans were 3.36 times more likely to post "Obamacare" and 1.40 more likely to tweet about "God" than Democrats.

The researchers said these results suggest that language used on Twitter does reflect distinct differences between conservatives and liberals.

Matthew and Karolina also observed that the supposed Democrats "tend to use first-person singular pronouns more often than Republican followers, which we interpret as their greater desire for emphasizing uniqueness."

The London-based researchers also hinted that their efforts to study the Americans' political expressions on Twitter have just gotten started. "It would be exciting to investigate how the language of Democrats and Republicans on Twitter changes over time in the context of the 2016 U.S. election," the pair said.