One of the reasons Twitter is popular in Japan is a characteristic of Japanese itself: Japanese uses ideograms which enable it to convey more information in just 140 characters than other languages, not counting Chinese. Incidentally, the Japanese version of this sentence is written with exactly 140 characters. How many characters does it take in other languages?
Mandarin
土耳其禁止了推特的访问。
土耳其禁止了推特的訪問。
tǔ ěr qí jìn zhǐ le tuī tè de fǎng wèn 。