Interesting Findings: Twitter text analysis

1. Verbs are much more common in their gerund form in Twitter than in general text. “Going”, “getting” and “watching” all appear in the top 100 words or so.

2. “Watching”, “trying”, “listening”, “reading” and “eating” are all in the top 100 first words, revealing just how often people use Twitter to report on whatever they are experiencing (or consuming) at the time.

3. Evidence of greater informality than general English: “ok” is much more common, and so is “f***”.

Source
Oxford-Twitter Analysis