Exploring User Purpose Writing Single Tweets

Microblogging is a new way of communication among people which allows them to disseminate messages via web, mobile phone, email or instant messaging. In 2010, microbloggers generated 65 million messages a day on Twitter alone. Our hypothesis is that tweeting is an activity which its users perform in order to stills some needs. In this paper, we describe an approach for analysing user purposes in writing single tweets and organize these purposes to taxonomy. We find that people use microblogging for eight different purpose, e.g. promotion, social interaction and expressing emotions. We aim to classify the tweet into categories of purposes.