[lbo-talk] Twitter = death of civilization (cont.)

[shag carpet bomb]

At 11:12 AM 9/22/2009, Doug Henwood wrote:
><http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/dan-macsai/popwise/report-nine-scientifically-proven-ways-get-re-tweeted-twitter?partner=homepage_newsletter  
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>Per a Flesch-Kincaid test, comprehending RTs requires 6.47 years of
>education, while normal tweets require just 6.04.

funny. i've just been puzzling over a finding that my company's web sites 
are at a grad 26 level. presumably, this is because there is no 
punctuation, so the analyzer is assuming a really long sentence.

messing around with those scales lately, my guess is that the slightly 
higher retweet is due to the extra acronym (RT), the @ symbol and the 
handleID of the twit being retweeted.

just a guess, though.

shag