Biggest Twitter Linguistic Study Ever Hopes To Discover The Next Viral Sensation

How does something “go viral” on Twitter? To an outside observer, it might seem like magic – a small group starts tweeting about something, and all of a sudden it blows up across the entire Twitter-verse, and everyone is talking about that so-ugly-it’s-cute kitten.

But researchers are convinced they can discover how new trends develop – tracking the next “twerk” based on the language we use on Twitter.

According to Phys.org, researchers from Aston University in the UK will be conducting the largest linguistic study of its kind on Twitter.