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I wonder how microblogging works in China/Japan? With Kanji/Hanzi 140 character limit turns into a 140 word limit. That's like a friggin essay.
by tangled_zans 11y ago
I wonder how microblogging works in China/Japan?
With Kanji/Hanzi 140 character limit turns into a 140 word limit.
That's like a friggin essay.
- cpeterso 11y agoThat's an interesting point. How does the distribution of tweet lengths vary by language?
- tangled_zans 11y agoThat would be a fun linguistic/NLP project to work on! Most tweets that I see in English are pushing towards the boundary of the 140 character limit, which suggests to me that it's at best barely-sufficient to express ourselves. If it turns out that, say, most Chinese tweets are in the region of 100-120 characters then that would mean that using Hanzi they can express everything they want to say and still have space left over. I would be quite keen to collaborate with someone on this.
- spriggan3 11y agoYou're making an excellent point about languages. 140 characters in French or German might not be enough to make a quick point, given how convoluted written French is supposed to be for instance ( I'm french ). "SMS writing" in french is almost like the worst offense possible to the language. I wonder what Balzac would have thought of Twitter.
- tangled_zans 11y agoI was just thinking about how it would work for German, which I speak to a certain extent. I suspect that, per-capita, twitter might be quite unpopular in Germany compared to other countries. Do a lot of people use it in France?