Our tweets are getting shorter
October 15, 2013
Good tweeting is often an exercise in good editing -- cramming any thought into 140 characters can be a challenge in itself, let alone coming up with something smart or witty. In 2009, the share of tweets numbering 40 characters or fewer was pretty balanced against the proportion of tweets numbering 120 characters or more. The following year saw a spike in the proportion of tweets numbering around 120 characters. But ever since then, tweets have been getting shorter and shorter — to the point that long tweets now account for only a tiny fraction of all tweets.
Our tweets are getting shorter