Re: [twitter-dev] Newbie so sorry if this is basic

2010-09-18 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Twitter doesn't provide a way to check the language of a tweet. You can easily check the location of the user, but that wouldn't be accurate. The best way is to ask the Google Translate API to detect the language, but that would take time. A different way to solve it is to simply check for common e

[twitter-dev] Newbie so sorry if this is basic

2010-09-18 Thread steveh000
I am learning all about java and the Twitter api for my second year at Uni, I have created a stream where I am getting everything sent to me in every language i can think off. is there a way of filtering it to just English. If someone could point me in the right direction that would help me loads.