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Table 5 Bottom 10 languages with the lowest average margin of error for estimating contagion ratios as a function of the agreement between FastText-LID and Twitter-LID (sorted by 2019)

From: The growing amplification of social media: measuring temporal and social contagion dynamics for over 150 languages on Twitter for 2009–2020

Language

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

Tamil

±0.03

±0.01

±0.01

±0.01

±0.01

±0.01

Greek

±0.13

±0.07

±0.01

±0.01

±0.01

±0.01

Japanese

±0.01

±0.01

±0.01

±0.01

±0.02

±0.02

Russian

±0.01

±0.01

±0.01

±0.02

±0.03

±0.03

Persian

±0.10

±0.06

±0.06

±0.05

±0.04

±0.03

Arabic

±0.04

±0.03

±0.02

±0.02

±0.03

±0.04

Chinese

±0.04

±0.04

±0.04

±0.05

±0.06

±0.08

English

±0.04

±0.05

±0.05

±0.06

±0.08

±0.09

Thai

±0.03

±0.03

±0.04

±0.06

±0.08

±0.09

Portuguese

±0.08

±0.10

±0.09

±0.11

±0.11

±0.10