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Produced and hosted by Jon Gordon, Future Tense brings you the latest technology topics in daily five-minute capsules. From electronic privacy and digital democracy to spam and computer worms, Future Tense keeps you up to date on the rapidly changing world of technology.
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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.
Posted by Dave Duncan | September 8, 2009 3:32 AM
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.
Posted by Astoria Martens | September 8, 2009 4:57 PM
