A study of 50 Cent's tweets from 12 -19 December have revealed some startling results.
In total there were 47 tweets in the two week period, with the majority (74%) being posted on just three days in particular.
These are broken down as follows:
Saturday 11 December:
14 tweets. Most of them were pictures taken on the set of his new film ('Set Up') with various (poorly worded) captions.
Highlights include:
Nigga these look like blanks to you. Lol
There is a picture of a tray of bullets, they presumably are blanks, in the context of the 13 other tweets pertaining to his new film.
There is classic fiddy punctuation mistake, in which the rapper forgot to use a question mark in posing a question.
This is why I don't sit in the back seat no more. Lol
Included is an image of a black limousine with its back window penetrated by several bullet holes.
Monday 13:
All of these posts pertained to rival rapper Ja Rule's impending incarceration.
Highlights:
I'm well connected, I'm a say it again. I'm well connected don't f**k with my little homie jah
The apparent empathy of this statement is ousted by a following tweet:
There throwing a going away party for this punk they can't even afford alcohol. there looking for sponsors know anyone. Lol
They are = they're. Question mark... again.
Sunday 19:
This day featured quite possibly the oddest tweets in this study's history thus far. Three tweets were posts of pictures of children and captions provided by the rapper.
The most unsettling of these was a picture of a child, naked, sitting on a toilet resting on a wooden laundry hamper in front of him apparently sound asleep, with the comment:
This kid is going to be successful he can multitask. lol
All in all Ja Rule, was the focus of 21% of the tweets in the past two weeks.
Two other comments were directed at boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr, both concerning their mutual love of money.
The rapper ostensibly 'Laughed Out Loud' and articulated this in writing a grand total of 23 times (49%). This brings the total LOL count since the 1 November to 51. This means that out of the 206 tweets in this period, the phrase has been used on average in 1 out of every 4 tweets.
In the fortnight of 6 – 19 December correct punctuation was used on only three occasions.
This works out at 6%, a huge drop from last fortnight's figure of 20%.
This means that the overall rate of correct punctuation in 50 Cent's tweets has dropped to 5% (10 out of 206).
The three correct sentences of the fortnight are provided below:
This is how I look when you f*ck with my money. Lol
This is in reference to an image of the rapper gazing solemnly at a gun he is holding.
Gun is a dope movie! Nice line up for the cast. THANKS
Ideally 'Gun' should be isolated in italicised form or else designated inverted commas. In the general scheme of things this is a very palatable sentence however.
He thought it was just a kiss. He had no idea he would have to pay her bills. Lol
Included is a picture of a young girl kissing an unconcerned boy.
One phrase was almost given the stamp of a well articulated statement:
My son is crazy I told him let me use the computer. He said he was on it first. I said I don't care.
However the sentence needs a full stop, hyphen, semi colon, or comma in between “crazy” the proceeding first person pronoun to read properly.
Also, inverted commas should ideally be used to designate speech directed at a subject other than the reader. ie. I told him “let me use the computer”.
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