The findings from my twitter research suggested that age does reflect the way people type. I found that Beth-18, typed words in full, capitalised letters, however commas and full stops are missing, standard communication then deteriorates further in Heather-17 tweets, subtle differences such as 'cos' and 'kinda' slip into the tweets. It then gets more substandard by the next girl, Shona-16 who often uses such things as 'u' 'omg' and 'wtf' and then Nathalie-15 who says 'n' 'omfg' 'ffs' and 'ugh'. There is also a lack of capitalisation in all three 17, 16 and 15 year olds tweets and well as simple punctuation missing.

However; an issue that was raised was whether a tweet to someone should start with a capital letter or not, for example, a tweet made by Nathalie (15) said '@-male18- crying omfg(3 laughing emojis)' does the 'crying' start with a capital or not? Does the @ count as a name or just information, as in is it the start of the sentence or not?