Cross-language Social Media Analysis

Cross-language Social Media Analysis

A very cool article by our friends over at Basis Tech discusses the need for in-language analysis, particularly in the social media space. Recorded Future leverages Basis language tools behind the scenes for in-language analytics in real time, and machine translation tools on the front-end (after the text extraction is completed) to assist analysts. Basis has pulled together some compelling facts which we’ve pasted below. Further down the page you can play with these results firsthand.

Check out their article for the full story:

Which Countries are Facebook Users Located In?

(for 2010)

Country
Number of Users
1. United States
146,805,000
2. Indonesia
31,784,080
3. United Kingdom
28,935,380
4. Turkey
24,143,980
5. France
20,469,420
6. Philippines
18,901,900
7. Mexico
18,243,080
8. Italy
17,812,800
9. Canada
17,522,780
10. India
16,915,900
Source: http://www.dnewsglobal.com/10-largest-facebook-visitors-countries/1199.html

Which Countries are Twitter Users Located In? % of Twitter users from each country (data taken October-December 2009)

  1. US (50.88%)
  2. Brazil (8.79)
  3. UK (7.20)
  4. Canada (4.35)
  5. Germany (2.49)
  6. Indonesia (2.41)
  7. Australia (2.39)
  8. Netherlands (1.32)
  9. India (1.27)
  10. Japan (1.22)