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
谁的英语都比不上他。
誰的英語都比不上他。
shéi de yīng yǔ dōu bǐ bù shàng tā 。