Ask HN: Why are English and Spanish the only languages that trend on Twitter?

Posted by CodeFoo on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @08:13PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm especially surprised I never see trending in Arabic, Chinese, Korean or Japanese. Does Twitter intentionally hide them or do they just not Tweet much?

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Re:Ask HN: Why are English and Spanish the only languages th... by meerita on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @03:46AM (#5824220)

Probably is cultural. As a spaniard, my guess can be that people love gossip but the amazing thing is, every tv show and many ad agencies use twitter hashtags for their promotions. This didn't happened me at Berlin, for example, but maybe I'm wrong and it's just something cultural.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are English and Spanish the only languages th... by vittore on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @09:10PM (#5823100)

It is not exactly like that, I saw both chinese and russian trends on twitter, rember #дождь for example. I guess people just tend to twit in English, even if it is not their primary language.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are English and Spanish the only languages th... by tokenadult on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @11:27PM (#5823520)

Chinese is hardly present on Twitter because of censorship in China and competition within China from Chinese-language microblogging services (which are very influential within China).

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Re:Ask HN: Why are English and Spanish the only languages th... by mathrawka on Thursday June 06, 2013 @05:01AM (#5831297)

You just need to change your location... http://cl.ly/image/3Z2U0v1H0r3v

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