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Twit,twit!

Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, 4 December 2012
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Twitter is one of the most popular social networking services, gaining more and more followers every day. More than 500 million people post their tweets on a daily basis, while it is very popular among the  “Hollywood stars” as well, functioning as a bridge of communication with their fans. This is not something that you did not know.

Have a look at this or even better follow the link http://zoom.it/IIY6



This is a London map showing the languages used in Tweets! The majority of them are in English, but there are a lot of other nationalities too. What’s next? Spanish, French, Turkish, Arabic, Portuguese, German, Italian, Malay and Russian are the languages used with this order, respectively. In total, the languages detected were about 66, among them Swahili, Creole and Basque. Impressive isn’t it?
Ed Manley and James Cheshire at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, collected 3.3 million tweets that had been posted in summer 2012 during the period of Olympics, visualizing the languages of Twitter. The classification of course does not seem that reliable in order to discuss about ethnic groups or minorities, but as an approach it’s really interesting!


Sources http://londonist.com/2012/10/twitterlanguage.php

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