Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Map that shows how tweets are shortest in the Deep South and getting shorter everywhere

Map that shows how tweets are shortest in the Deep South and getting shorter everywhere
Twitter is unique for its brevity - only 140 characters are allowed in any post. But even within those tight linguistic confined, conversation is becoming shorter and shorter.

Two researchers at the University of the Philippines have found that in just three years, tweets have gotten two words shorter - falling from 10 words, on average, to eight.

Interestingly, the length of tweets also varies state-to-state. Twitter users in the Deep South appear to tweet fewer words and characters than anywhere else in the U.S.

Shortening and streamlining language is a trend that has tracked with language through history - and it's been accelerated by Twitter, they say.

Controversially, the authors of the study theorize that race is a factor in this trend.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2502391/The-map-shows-tweets-shortest-Deep-South-getting-shorter-users-speaking-slang.html#ixzz2kRVMyHxH

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