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New Study Reveals Top Languages on Twitter

Natasha — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:22:43 +0000

Social media monitoring company Semiocast has released an eye-opening study about the languages used on Twitter. Not surprisingly, tweets remain to be dominated by the English language. However, the study revealed that Arabic is the fastest-growing language on Twitter.

In October 2011 more than 2 million tweets were posted every … Read more...

Facebook Testing a New “Translate Button” Feature for Pages

Natasha — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:16:44 +0000

It might become easier for Facebook’s 750 million users to communicate. Facebook has been testing out a new feature that will translate comments on pages, according to research by InsideFacebook.com.

This could be a major development in social media, as people from across the globe, who do not share a … Read more...

Teens Texting Revives Languages on the Edge of Extinction

Keri — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:33:22 +0000

While many people see the surge of text messaging and social media as a force behind the erosion of the English language, there are also signs of teens’ new communication habits helping to bring back languages that are on the verge of disappearance.

Samuel Herrera, who runs the Linguistics laboratory … Read more...

Preserving Indigenous Languages Via Twitter

Natasha — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:37:27 +0000

Twitter, which currently has over 500 languages being used daily, recently launched a new site: Indigenous Tweets. The intention is to “build online language communities,” said creator of the site, St. Louis-based computational Linguistics professor Kevin Patrick Scannell.

Languages on this site vary from better known tongues, such as Basque, … Read more...

Twitter Turns to Users to Translate Site into More Languages

Natasha — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:38:23 +0000

In line with their recent efforts to localize, Twitter has launched the Twitter Translation Center where users can translate on a volunteer basis.

The volunteers can translate for Twitter.com, Twitter’s mobile app, Twitter Help and Twitter for Business at http://translate.twttr.com/welcome.

To read the full story from Mashable.com, please click here. … Read more...

Top Facebook Status Trends of 2009

Keri — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:36:33 +0000

During 2009, nearly a hundred million words a day were posted in status updates on Facebook- well over a thousand per second during peak times, according to Facebook’s Data Team. Facebook examined the frequency of words and phrases in U.S. status updates for 2009, revealing the following top 15 trends:… Read more...