Twitter: The Powerful Analysis Of Twitter, Twitter And Twitter

The act of communicating is a diverse and multifaceted arena, one which allows a variety of styles, uses, and even creativity to convey meaning. Today there are multiple platforms and interfaces, like social media, that people use to express their thoughts and opinions. These social media sites often become an arena for people to display their particular linguistic creativity. Sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram provide a platform for the use of linguistic creativity. This paper will provide a coherent analysis of just such an instance of linguistic creativity as found on the site Twitter. Twitter is an online social media site that offers a way for people all over the world to communicate their thoughts and opinions, as well as share pictures, videos and links. Those who use Twitter are limited to 140 characters, called ‘tweets’, which can be posted to their personal profiles on the site, and made available for others to see. A person viewing the tweet can then respond to the message or ‘retweet’ it. A retweet means that they copy or forward the tweet to their followers. Followers are people who have elected to subscribe to a particular persons Twitter page. This is the general premise of Twitter and some of the common terms used to describe the actions that transpire on this particular social media site.

This number of users is comprised of a wide variety of people from all over the world, this number includes many celebrity users who often carry a large number of their own followers. One such user is a young rap singer named Nicki Minaj, she has a large fan-base both on and off of Twitter. In a recent tweet by one of those fans, we see an example of how users of the site use linguistic creativity to convey messages. Here the fan, ‘Sam’, posts an image of the rap singer along with a message about Nicki Minaj’s ‘wrist