The Linguistics of ReTweets

[theforay]

http://danzarrella.com/retweet-linguistics.html

[johnnybgoode]

A lot of the charts are just totally unnecessary, like this one: http://danzarrella.com/ling/syl.jpg

I wonder if they were included to bolster the impression that there are some important statistics involved here. Maybe there are, but silly charts make me suspicious.