Slightly related - twitter is much more verbose in Japanese purely due to the fa...

asymmetric · on Sept 11, 2011

didn't the study state just the contrary: that english is more dense than japanese?

e2daipi · on Sept 11, 2011

This study was about syllables, not characters vs symbols.

Example:

Japanese for mouth 口 = 1 "character" English = 5 charachters

The syllables are irrelevant, though above they match; twitter care about characters.

Also note the:

> "Slightly related"

makthrow · on Sept 9, 2011

Same with Korean and Chinese.