Careful what you say on Twitter. Those 140 characters are being anaylzed by academics for meaning and purpose. Do all Tweets have meaning? No. Even that is meaningful for linguistic analysis and psychological profiling according to Dan Zarrella who developed Tweet Psych.
In Zarrella's creative conscious, social science and psychology, converge (or maybe collide) inside those prolific little Tweets. Get his take on this at The Science of Retweeting. Inside this article is a substantial report for download with more analysis.
Among Zarrella's recommendations is to stop short of the 140 characters or about 120. That leaves room for the ever popular "retweet". The same day I read this article I also read a comment from Writer's Digest suggesting to take one word out of every sentence to improve writing. This is a simple, yet inspired idea. Wait, let me try that again. This is a simple, inspired idea.
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