Indigenous Tweets is a website that records minority language Twitter messages to help indigenous speakers contact each other. It was founded in March 2011 by Kevin Scannell, who does research in computational linguistics in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.[1][2] The website's purpose is to enable minority language speakers to communicate on the Internet.[3]
On its homepage, the website displays a list of minority languages it has cached. After selecting a language, the user is brought to a table of everyone who is tweeting in that language. Indigenous Tweets provides the profile picture of each Twitter user and statistics about each person's number of followers. In addition to providing statistics about the percentage of tweets a person writes in different languages, Indigenous Tweets has a selection of the trending topics in the various minority languages.[3]
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- ^ הארץ (2011-03-29). "האם האינטרנט יציל את הקולות שהוא משתיק?". Haaretz (in Hebrew). Archived from the original on 2019-10-25. Retrieved 2011-04-22.
- ^ a b Lee, Dave (2011-04-08). "Micro-blogging in a mother tongue on Twitter". BBC News. Archived from the original on 2011-04-22. Retrieved 2011-04-22.