Chinese tweeters get twice the info into 140 characters than Spanish do. 45% more than English.

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Chinese is ideal for twitter, which restricts messages to 140 symbols: most messages do not even reach that limit

Arabic requires a little more space, but written Arabic routinely omits vowels anyway.

Romance languages generally tend to be more verbose so abbreviations are needed to reduce the number of characters.

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