Not a fake: Twitter probably had a problem with the German article “die”. This had consequences for a user.

Because of the answer “the boomers” to the previous question “are etz auslendah or boomah to blame for all of this, I don’t know what to do anymore” a user was blocked on Twitter.

The content is about the phenomenon “Ok Boomer” ( we reported ). This is a digital generational conflict in which boomers, i.e. people born between 1946 and around the mid-1960s, and people from the younger generations Y and Z blame each other for all sorts of things.

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Therefore, when asked whether foreigners or boomers are to blame for everything, the corresponding ironic answer is “the boomers”. Here is the corresponding tweet from which the reply was deleted:

Die hard, the boomers!

What happened: Twitter, whether at this point in the form of an algorithm or even an English-speaking employee, interpreted the German article “die” as the English imperative to the verb “die” and thus interpreted it from the answer “die Boomer”.

That might also be the plausible explanation, since the term Boomer is also English and the overall construct was therefore viewed by Twitter as an answer written in English.

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How to tell what language Twitter interprets?

In fact, Twitter assigns a language to each individual tweet. You can see for yourself whether Twitter reads English or German from a tweet by typing the following into the Twitter :

from:[ACCOUNTNAME] lang:en

or

from:[ACCOUNTNAME] lang:de

You can enter any account name, and the country code is also variable. “de” stands for German, “en” stands for English. If you want to know where Twitter has not recognized a language, write “and” (undefined) as an abbreviation here.

The Boomers: Ridicule

Of course, this misinterpretation also causes ridicule. Users wonder what it looks like when you write about “the Queen” or whether it might not be better in the future to only write in the Viennese dialect.

 

 


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