The average sentence length of a Twitter message is 1.40 sentences. Gerunds are more popular on Twitter than off. The second most popular word on Twitter is “I.”
These are a few of the things the Oxford English Dictionary has learned by studying millions of Twitter messages.
Guest: Jesse Sheidlower, editor-at-large of the OED
This segment originally aired June 8, 2009
I would imagine that it is not just the world of Twittering where the use of the word “I” is so popular.
I very much like the positive approach The editor of OED takes on Twitter. Seeing that Twitter has become a phenomenon that leaves many people puzzled.