8.4.11

To tweet or not to tweet, that is the question 2


Twitter and endangered languages.
Answers to blogpost 
What’s the purpose of the website?
Speakers and tweeters of minority languages can meet  and speak with each other.

Kevin Scannel developed an application. What does this application do? 
It finds twitter activity in minority and endangered languages
What’s an API?
The Twitter API is kind of a tool kit that allows people to build apps and tools around Twitter.
What does the app do with tweets in minority languages?
The API allows Kevin Scannel to get at the data. He grabs tweets people send in these language. It pulls them down using the API. Finally, he does language recognition on them and sorts them into these languages. They get statistically correlated.
What did he have to do previously (and has been doing for the last eight years)?

The base data doesn’t come from tweets but from texts on blogs, newspapers, web pagse etc.He's got a bunch of data for about 500 languages, so for 8 years he's been gathering all the data.


What will you find on indigenous tweets.com?

On the main page there is a table of all people tweeting in different minority languages.Once you click on a language, you see the number of people who tweet in that language, the percentage they tweet in the minority language in comparison to other (global) languages and you can see the number of followers they have.

No comments:

Post a Comment