Tweet analysis has led to a large number of studies in many domains such as ideology prediction in Information Sciences (Djemili et al., 2014), spam detection in Security (Yamasaki, 2011), dialog analysis in Linguistics (Boyd et al., 2010), and natural disaster anticipation in Emergency (Gelernter and Mushegian, 2011;Sakaki et al., 2013).
complementary efforts have been made in Social Sciences and Digital Humanities to develop tweet classifications (Dann, 2010;Riemer and Richter, 2010;Shiri and Rathi, 2013;Stvilia and Gibradze, 2014 few studies aim at classifying tweets according to communication classes.