OMG! Illiterate Twitter Users Are Driving English Language Evolution, Says Study [INFOGRAPHIC]
Twitter users are the least literate internet users in social networking, reveals a new study from Brandwatch and mycleveragency.
However, while users of Twitter are prone to misspelling words and leaving out punctuation altogether, certainly more than their counterparts on Facebook and Google+, they’re also part of an evolution in English language that is re-shaping how we communicate online.
The survey observed that while tweeters are actually more literate now than they were a year ago, it’s their heavy use of alternative spellings of words (i.e.,
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