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According to Demos Research Center’s report, more than a half of misogynistic tweets are written by girls, BBC reported. 

Within three weeks researchers monitored the activity of Twitter users, paying special attention to two words, that offend women and implied reference to their easy virtue.

As a result, it was found that in the UK the research had 6,500 unique users targeted by 10,000 abusive tweets in the UK alone, the news agency reported.

As for pictures on Twitter World segment, the one offensive word in English addressed to a woman was used by 200 thousand for the same three weeks.

In 2014 similar research was conducted by the cosmetic company Dove. As a result, experts managed to establish that four of five insults which appear on the Internet are directed to appearance of a woman.

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