Social media language
The linguistic variety used on social media platforms including tweets, posts, comments, and stories. Social media language is often informal, interactive, and multimodal.
Real World
Greta Thunberg's Twitter/X posts use short, direct sentences and hashtags like #FridaysForFuture to mobilise global youth — demonstrating how social media language can generate real-world political movements.
Exam Focus
Comment on platform-specific constraints (character limits, visual focus) when analysing social media language; generic 'informal register' comments score poorly.
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