Short report: What Twitter hashtags do translators use?

Someone asked what hashtags were most commonly used by translators. I have my own favourites, but I decided to have a closer look…

I downloaded the last 1,000 tweets from an archive of my timeline [1]. This included my own tweets and tweets of 222 of my followers. Although there is a clear bias in favour of my own favourite topics, I felt that as the great majority of my 600-odd followers are translators, I felt that this number would provide a reasonable sample.

I extracted all hashtags (712) from this data, and counted the frequency of each one.

I eliminated 56 “one-off” hashtags and present the remainder in the table below.

Hashtag	Frequency
#xl8	191
#t9n	121
#language	73
#l10n	49
#ff	47
#translation	43
#mt	22
#linguistics	10
#google	8
#languages	7
#tm	6
#glossary	5
#mlwpisa	4
#xl8n	4
#english	4
#followfriday	3
#marketing	3
#fb	3
#chomsky	3
#acquisition	3
#russian	2
#tms_inspire	2
#tcdindc	2
#followsaturday	2
#przrom11	2
#g11n	2
#culture	2
#grammar	2
#tll11	2
#gstile	2
#translations	2
#humour	2
#review	2
#anthropology	2
#sundayfollow	2
#cmmi	2
#t9n	2
#y9n	2
#terminology	2
#linguistic	2
#definitions	2
#memoqfest	2
#dictionary	2
#mousalamanca	2
#physics	2
#crowdsourcing	2

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[1] https://www.tweetscan.com/data.php

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