Semiocast: Percentage of English-Language Tweets Slipping

English-language tweets slipped to 50 percent from two-thirds of messages sent via the microblogging service in the first half of 2009. The next four languages on the list were Japanese (14 percent), Portuguese (9 percent), Malay (6 percent), and Spanish (4 percent), according to Semiocast.

The remaining 17 percent were made up of the following languages, none of which accounted for a share as high as 2 percent: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Kirghiz, Korean, Macedonian, Nepali, Norwegian, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, and Vietnamese.