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Social media gives researchers an invaluable opportunity to gain insight into different facets of human life. Researchers put a great emphasis on categorizing the socioeconomic status (SES) of individuals to help predict various findings of interest. Forum uses, hashtags and chatrooms are common tools of conversations grouping. Crowdsourcing involves gathering intelligence to group online user community based on common interest. This paper provides a mechanism to look at writings on social media and group them based on their academic background. We analyzed online forum posts from various geographical regions in the US and characterized the readability scores of users. Specifically, we collected 10,000 tweets from the members of US Senate and computed the Flesch-Kincaid readability score. Comparing the Senators’ tweets to the ones from average internet users, we note 1) US Senators’ readability …