Curiously, it‘s also a tell-tale sign that a North-American typed the text.

Just as a space before colons or exclamation marks is a sign that someone francophone typed it.

	▲	dkga 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Indeed - especially the space before colons and semi-colons. The space before exclamation marks sometimes happens in informal typing amongst Brazilians. But never the space before colons/semi-colons.