Prepositions hanging and no one cares?

Using a preposition at the end of a sentence is something only a fastidious process or sort would notice, under normal circumstances. For example, if you were to make such a mistake on an advanced academic paper or some professional document, it'd most likely be noticed.

Commit the same 'offense' on social media and it's not really a thing at all. Not much notice is taken, even when a writing group posts a blatant language mistake. On one hand, this is an understandable reality of the casual nature of social media. But we're looking at the other hand today.

A Writer's Inspiration

In every one of these samples, the prepositional term "from" could/should have been eliminated.  

Take the following Twitter stream excerpt, for example. Notice the common theme of a hanging, aka dangling, preposition:

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Maybe the issue doesn't seem common here, when these errant tweets are all collected together this way. In this short view, it looks like anyone who's wondering (via Twitter) about a writer's source of inspiration might let a preposition hang about once per month. Keep in mind that this is only a short, cropped version of errs. 

"But wait," they say. "It's Twitter, and normal people talk that way." 

Sure we do. Certainly, there are times when it's okay-- standard, in fact-- to end with a preposition:

Where are you from?

Things are looking up!

Then, there are other times when it's just not going to be right no matter what, because it's redundant and redundancy is a thing that almost any living thing can sense. It's too much language! Every sample in the Twitter image above would be complete and able to be understood without its attached, dangling preposition. There would have been no ill effect, and that is the rule to remember. After removal, we can see and hear (say them out loud) the difference that clean language makes:

• Oh yes, you can see where writers get their inspiration - [...] 
• How and where do writers get their inspiration?
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Go ahead and try the rest by rewriting the tweets without the dangling preposition; maybe, you'll see how the preposition "from" is an extra, useless word "hanging" there on the ends of these Twitter thoughts. It's a hanging preposition, to be avoided when possible. While it may not be the end of anything to ignore such language fluency, let's not deny that a cleaner approach could do us well. Remember to heed the following simple rule for dangling prepositions:

If a sentence works without a preposition tacked onto the end, then leave it off!

Because this is Twitter we're talking about . . . 

Social media and messaging pros know, character count and brevity matter. Seamless as possible language can be important in many instances. Ask yourself, "Who am I representing, and why?"