On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
Twitter has grown and with the recent announcement of having over a 100 million active users it is no surprise that Twitter continues to add more and more languages. Of the languages added you can see that it is aimed at the Indian, Chinese, Malaysian and Philippians segment of users. There are more and more people coming to Twitter it has been happening slowly and compared to the growth of Facebook this seems trivial. The important thing to consider though is that Twitter's growth might be slow and it is growing and they do have many loyal fans. A surprising new set of Twitter users comes from Brazil, yes, people from Brazil must have finally got tired of Orkut and you might have expected them to flock to Facebook, apparently now. They are headed out to Twitter. Twitter also had this to say "We will continue to add more languages to the Translation Center for crowdsourced translation. Coming soon to the Translation Center: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Polish and Hungarian.
Source: Twitter Blog
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