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Post date: Feb 15, 2014 6:23:47 PM
The work of Dr. Christian Alis and Dr. May Lim on the evolution of tweets was featured in national and international media. Among other things, they reported the eventual shortening of tweets in time due to the use of jargon. The study was published in the journal PLoS ONE [Christian Alis and May Lim, Spatio-Temporal Variation of Conversational Utterances on Twitter, PLoS ONE 8(10): e77793 (2013)].
[MIT Technology Review online] Tweets Have Become Shorter Since 2009, Say Computer Scientists
“Christian Alis and May Lim at the University of the Philippines say they have measured how the length of tweets have changed between September 2009 and December 2012 and say that tweets have shrunk dramatically in that time.”
[TIME.com] The Incredible Shrinking Tweet
http://techland.time.com/2013/10/16/the-incredible-shrinking-tweet/
“Study authors Christian Alis and May Lim attribute the shortening of tweets to the increased use of jargon, implying Twitter users are self-segregating into subgroups that understand the same lingo ....”
[GMANews online] Tweets are shrinking, UP physicists say
[Neuroskeptic blog @ DISCOVER Magazine] Why Are (Some) Tweets Getting Shorter?
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2013/11/11/lost-art-twitter-conversation/
[National Post] Who needs 140 characters anymore? Tweets keep getting shorter, new study finds
[The Switch @ Washington Post]
“Good tweeting is often an exercise in good editing — cramming any thought into 140 characters can be a challenge in itself, let alone coming up with something smart or witty. But it turns out that a lot of us have actually become pretty effective at not hitting the character limit.”
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