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I actually implemented something similar just for fun(http://twitpic.com/xcwtb). But didn't release it because i never thought anybody would actually use that. It's very unlikely that someone is going to follow a person who is tweeting in a language they don't understand.

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I do this for http://www.bikechatter.com and it's actually quite useful. There are plenty of pro bike racers who write in their own language, and it's nice to be able to get the gist of what they're saying.

Us non-English Europeans follow and tweet in both English and our native tongue fairly often. Then there's Belgium that has three official languages and Finland where a small minority speaks Swedish (as opposed to Finnish). So I wouldn't be so sure about that.

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