Add to ORKGNowadays, people mostly communicate through social media. They use it to connect with different people, engage in online discourse and to spread information. The language they use is very informal and has its own characteristics. Networking sites brought to some innovations such as new words, new meanings of the already known ones and similar features which main purpose is to simplify communication. These features also provide the transmission of a message in 140 characters Twitter allows. This final paper discusses the language of social media with its characteristics. The most common features of language on Twitter are slang, new words, abbreviations, emoticons and hashtags. They are explained and exemplified by the Twitter posts....