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Slightly related - twitter is much more verbose in Japanese purely due to the fact that 140 chars can pack in a lot more information than in English

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

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"

Same with Korean and Chinese.