twitter.retweeted.user.lang

Updated on Tuesday, 4 December, 2012 - 10:26
Description: 

The language the Twitter user selected from the drop-down list on their Settings page.

Note that the value may not be reliable. For example, a user might select French as their mother tongue but compose their Tweets in English. DataSift offers an augmentation called Language which determines the language based on a statistical analysis of 3-letter groups of characters.

The drop-down list shows the full name of the language (English, French, German, and so on) but the twitter.user.lang target contains the two-character code for the language.

Take a look at the list of languages that Twitter supports.

Examples: 

1.   Filter for Retweets of Tweets from authors who specify French as their preferred language:

2.   Filter for Retweets of Tweets from authors who specify French as their preferred language but Tweet in English:

Resource Information

Target service: 
Twitter
Target object: 
Twitter: Retweeted
Format: 
string
Array: 
No
Always exists: 
No