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Looking at how people shorten words on Twitter reveals it’s something more than just trying to fit a message into the 140-character limit.
Researchers Are Totes Studying How Ppl Shorten Words On Twitter
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The team at Dartmouth College mined 180 million tweets from 900,000 users to understand word clippings — like “awks” as “awkward.” The researchers want to understand how such words originate and how they spread.
Looking at how people shorten words on Twitter reveals it’s something more than just trying to fit a message into the 140-character limit.
Researchers Are Totes Studying How Ppl Shorten Words On Twitter
www.npr.org
The team at Dartmouth College mined 180 million tweets from 900,000 users to understand word clippings — like “awks” as “awkward.” The researchers want to understand how such words originate and how they spread.