Now something else is going on. On Twitter, the tradition has emerged of posting short messages, not so much short by omitting and abbreviating words, but by formulating concisely and simply not being long-winded. You should preferably package your message in one tweet and if you can’t do that, the chance that people will read and retweet your message is simply a lot smaller. Personally, I think that the sentence structure on Twitter is most like written language, but then combined with the conciseness of spoken language.”
Eline Walda , strategic marketing advisor. @ElineWalda
“In broad terms (there are of course plenty of subcategories that can be thought of), tweets can be divided into:
The newspaper headline : a short, pointed message, often combined with a link and a short comment (“ RIP
… Johnny Kraaijkamp passed away https://ht.ly/enz ”).The speech bubble : the writer flings loose thoughts into the cosmos. a lonely walker, who mumbles to himself (“ Oh, damn, I still had to bring in the laundry ”).
The whowhatwhere : the message reads like a Hyves status update, including associated language errors and emoticons (“ Tomorrow to Veenendaal shopping with my darling Michelle! <3 ”).
The chitchat tweet : a small group of people chat happily among themselves kuwait phone number list hardly aware that the rest of the world is reading along (“@johnny11 @miepb nice work on a Monday morning.
Old-school Twitter : the verb is deliberately placed in an odd place, a remnant from the good old days of Twitter (“ Yay! *Sprint pulls* ”).
The mini-ad : More and more companies are using Twitter as a flat advertising medium (“ Now or never! Last villas with private pool in sunny Provence 30% discount ”).
In short: there is no single Twitter language. Twitter has a large number of subcultures, each with one or more styles of their own, which are often adopted from other media.”
Deirdre Breakenridge , PR, online PR and new media expert, blogger and writer. @dbreakenridge
“In general, social media is much more conversational and human than written language. On Twitter, until people really learn how to participate, it's used as a mechanism to share news and information, which can appear more like the written language. However, as you deepen your understanding and form relationships, the conversations become two way, collaborative and resemble the spoken language.”
Isrid van Geuns , online strategist, TLC ambassador and talent recruiter. @ISlinks
“Twitter is certainly not a spoken language, but it is also not a written language. I say: partial language.”