The Incredible Shrinking Tweet

Tweets these days ain't what they used to be. They’re getting smaller. Between 2009 and 2012, the median length of Twitter posts decreased from 10 words to eight words, according to a recent study by researchers at the University of the Philippines. The study, published Oct. 9, found that “utterances,” which the researchers defined as tweets beginning with the @ symbol and directed at another user, decreased in median length from eight words to five words. Study authors Christian Alis and ...