Tweet Test Finds Barack Obama Tweets Like a 7th Grader

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By NDTV Correspondent | Updated: 10 July 2014 20:10 IST
Tweet Test Finds Barack Obama Tweets Like a 7th Grader
Did you ever try to figure out how smart or dumb your tweet is? Well, according to a new test method for the micro-blogging site, 33 percent of people tweet at a fourth grade reading level.

The tweet test was carried out by Time magazine using a reading comprehension survey known as Simple Measure of Gobbledygook (SMOG).

It found that while teenage sensation Justin Bieber tweets like a fifth grader, US President Barack Obama tweets like a seventh grader!

Time magazine analysed one million public tweets and found that most tweets require no more than a fourth grade education to comprehend.

"Although a tweet's limit of 140 characters makes it difficult to compose a message at a higher reading level. But not impossible. This test did pick up a handful of 12th-grade tweets," the report added.

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Tweets were downloaded with the Twitter application programming interface (API) and run through a version of the SMOG test written for JavaScript.

Notably, earlier this month, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi became the third-most followed world leader on Twitter, behind US President Barack Obama and the Pope. Modi overtook Indonesian President S B Yudhoyono with his 5.09 million followers.

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"This shows how Mr Modi has been actively using Twitter to connect with the masses reinforcing the tool of digital diplomacy in a larger context making the social media platform a powerful channel for communicating and engaging with all Indians across the country," Twitter said in a statement.

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Written with agency inputs

 

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