Table 2.
Languagea | ISOb | Tweets (N=1,443,871,621), n (%) |
English | en | 928,225,493 (64.29) |
Spanish | es | 186,880,167 (12.94) |
Portuguese | pt | 62,398,113 (4.32) |
French | fr | 44,097,563 (3.05) |
Undefined | und | 41,140,188 (2.85) |
Indonesian | in | 35,683,876 (2.47) |
German | de | 25,970,256 (1.80) |
Japanese | ja | 16,865,989 (1.17) |
Italian | it | 15,697,293 (1.09) |
Turkish | tr | 14,931,506 (1.03) |
aThe language tags are automatically detected by Twitter and returned in the tweet metadata.
bISO: International Organization for Standardization.