Are Europeans Really Not Using Twitter?

Re:Are Europeans Really Not Using Twitter? by dlf on Monday November 28, 2011 @08:35PM (#3288533)

Unless I'm missing something, this article only discusses tweets by language, not geography. Many Europeans use English on social media sites given the cosmopolitan nature of Europe and the likelihood that, if there is one language they have in common with friends from other countries in Europe and abroad, it is English.

I'm guessing there's a few lesser spoken European languages in that "all others" category.

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Re:Are Europeans Really Not Using Twitter? by GertG on Thursday December 08, 2011 @07:11AM (#3328758)

Also, those numbers actually suggest that by far the most active language group (relatively speaking) on twitter are the Dutch speakers, who are almost all Europeans. Actually, I thought the number and growth for Dutch had to be a mistake, but other sources [1] do suggest the same trends. I'm still sceptical about the numbers though, especially German being hardly used seems at odds with older data about twitter usage [2].

[1]http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2011/4/T... [2]http://blog.sysomos.com/2010/01/14/exploring-the-use-of-twit...

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Re:Are Europeans Really Not Using Twitter? by nakkiel on Monday November 28, 2011 @08:50PM (#3288592)

Yes and no. No: in France at least, very few people use it. Yes: those who do use it in France, use it to talk people internationally (ie. in English).

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Re:Are Europeans Really Not Using Twitter? by harbud on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @12:39AM (#3293910)

So what do the French use for talking to fellow Frenchmen? (Like QQ for Chinese).

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Re:Are Europeans Really Not Using Twitter? by trtwn on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @03:49AM (#3289649)

This is correct. A lot of Twitter users from Germany I know tweet in English to get in contact with people from all over the world.

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