Monday, July 7, 2025
ADVT 
Tech

Twitter improves users' language skills: Study

Darpan News Desk IANS, 13 Sep, 2014 08:37 AM
  • Twitter improves users' language skills: Study
Expressing your thoughts and views in 140 characters on Twitter may actually be improving your language skills, shows a new study.
 
To prove this, researchers looked at the top 100 most commonly used words on Twitter.
 
Out of the 100 most used words, only two were shortened "RT" (shortened for re-tweet) and "u" (shortened for you).
 
The rest of the words averaged about 4.5 letters and none were contractions.
 
"Twitter may actually be improving its users' writing as it forces them to wring meaning from fewer letters," researchers argued.
 
According to them, a person tweeting has no option but concision and in a backward way, "the character limit actually explains the slightly longer word length we see".
 
Given finite room to work, longer words mean fewer spaces between them, which means less waste.
 
"Although the thoughts expressed on Twitter may be foreshortened but there is no evidence here that they are diminished," the study concluded.
 
The study appeared in OkCupid founder Christian Rudder's new book titled "Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)".

MORE Tech ARTICLES

Soon, edit photo with text commands

Soon, edit photo with text commands
Struggling with photo editing software? Switch to a new technology that changes weather, time of day, season or other features in photos with simple text commands....

Soon, edit photo with text commands

Beware! Unethical hackers can crack into your mobile

Beware! Unethical hackers can crack into your mobile
Tempted to get a new mobile phone in exchange for your old battered one? Beware! Unethical hackers can crack into every shred of personal information...

Beware! Unethical hackers can crack into your mobile

Tata Group is India's most valued brand: Study

Tata Group is India's most valued brand: Study
The Tata Group has retained its top position as the most valued brand of the country at $21 billion, according to an annual study by Brand Finance India....

Tata Group is India's most valued brand: Study

China bans Apple products for officials

China bans Apple products for officials
Apple products like iPad and MacBooks were omitted from a final government procurement list distributed in July....

China bans Apple products for officials

Facebook advertisements now cost more

Facebook advertisements now cost more
Facebook advertising has become costlier but the social networking site has cut down on the number of advertisements, media reports said....

Facebook advertisements now cost more

Thanks to Google, woman reunited with parents after 17 years

Thanks to Google, woman reunited with parents after 17 years
A woman, who went missing from a train when she was six-years old, was reunited here with her parents after 17 years - all thanks to a faint memory...

Thanks to Google, woman reunited with parents after 17 years