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> English only

I understand that they limit the text to ascii. But many other languages can be (sort of) written using only ascii characters. How do they want to enforce that? Do they block users who speak other languages? It sounds callous to me. A great thing about twitter is precisely that it allows to form communities of speakers of tiny, globally irrelevant languages.




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