Re:Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
by masukomi on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @08:14AM
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yes, speakers of agglutinating languages would be able to shove in a few more words, but a) they'd be looked at strangely by their compatriots for using some strange new combo word and no-one wants to have to decipher megawords like that b) (this should be obvious) switching to a different language means that the people who follow you can't read anything you say. So no, people will not switch to German, or any other agglutinating language to beat a word limit.
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Re:Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
by DashRattlesnake on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @12:05PM
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You already have something similar with the current system. Languages like Chinese have more semantic load per character, so I'd imagine Chinese tweeters can tweet more complete thoughts.
A better (but more opaque) system might try to estimate the "quantity" of semantic content in a language-specific way.