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How many languages are on Twitter?

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According to our most recent experiment, the answer is:  67 .

These are the top languages

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This experiment was based on a random sample of 22.632.977 Tweets collected using Twitter Streaming API, 23.4.-7.5.2015.

We used the language attribute (“lang”) which comes as a data field of a Tweet to determine the language.

This experiment is still ongoing, the official results will be published in a research paper.