Analysis of Twitter 

On Mario Falcone’s Twitter he uses a range of languages. The site uses many different features, to help draw people in; they use the site as a way of people communicating with each other, and are a site that helps promote certain businesses and people through tweets and promotional photos.  Many people on twitter including Mario use ‘text speak’ which is the language used by those sending text messages on a mobile phone, but it’s the same on twitter.  There is also the use of ‘vowel omission’ which is where they have left out vowel sounds in textspeak and other technology communication, instead of’ people’ they use ‘ppl’ another example is Acronyms like’ lol’ which really stands for ‘laugh out loud’, this is used to shorten their speak with technology which has also affected our language as people use shorten words instead of the actual word. Some of language that is used on twitter are phrases that replace sentences, there is also no spell checking with what people have written and many people use punctuation in their own way. Most of the language used on twitter is colloquial as people come across very chatty.

On twitter they use Homophonic representation, Mario on his twitter used this on his twitter and tweeted ‘good morning…2nd night’ when he could of used ‘ second night’ but they choose to shorten their words, as they only have a character restraint on the social networking site which encourages more people to speak like they do on technology.   The audience is clear as it’s mainly adults and teenagers that are interested in Twitter. The main purpose of the social networking site is for the public to post and tweet their ideas and feelings online for everyone to see. It allows people to keep in touch, getting feedbacks on ideas immediately and helps share multiple points of views. Twitter causes many teenagers and adults to become obsessed with social networking, rather than communicating in life experiences with face to face communication. Twitter language also affects the way people write in school, colleges and work as people are spending time on twitter and picking up the language used on their.