{"id":137,"date":"2011-11-16T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2011\/11\/16\/tweeting-around-the-world\/"},"modified":"2011-11-16T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T17:50:00","slug":"tweeting-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2011\/11\/16\/tweeting-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweeting Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/walkingsf\/6277163176\/in\/photostream\/lightbox\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-cKQepKxrZjQ\/TsP61CqsKDI\/AAAAAAAAATc\/3uliZGDI-U8\/s400\/americastweets.jpg\" width=\"246\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">A screenshot of languages used on Twitter in the Americas.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p>Since its inception, social media has spread rapidly. One of the most globalized products is Twitter, which allows users to send out short messages to followers. It is estimated that users send out <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2011\/08\/your-world-more-connected.html\">approximately 200 million of these messages a day<\/a>. Being such a globalized product, the languages spoken by users <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/ideas\/41004\">includes much more than just English<\/a>, as you can see in the map screenshots below (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/walkingsf\/6277163176\/in\/photostream\/lightbox\/\">the full map is available on Flickr<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/walkingsf\/6277163176\/in\/photostream\/lightbox\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"288\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-a5CiBszyzgE\/TsP62EOjLrI\/AAAAAAAAATk\/tnaOeABPWNY\/s400\/eurasiatweets.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">A screenshot languages used on Twitter in Europe and Asia.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZN16hi5pqOk\/TsP63-bKeAI\/AAAAAAAAATs\/Kz9dG2dRf9A\/s1600\/twitterlanguagelegend.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZN16hi5pqOk\/TsP63-bKeAI\/AAAAAAAAATs\/Kz9dG2dRf9A\/s400\/twitterlanguagelegend.jpg\" width=\"87\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">The Legend for the map.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A screenshot of languages used on Twitter in the Americas. Since its inception, social media has spread rapidly. One of the most globalized products is Twitter, which allows users to send out short messages to followers. 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