[justJanne]

By the way, your statistics are for English.

For German, where we have 14.3 characters per word on average[1], we get:

10'000/14.8 = 676 words.

676 words @ 250 wpm is 2 Minutes 42 Seconds.

A 2½ Minute article is very short, like a short comment in a newspaper, and would fit very well into a microblogging site.

[1] http://www.duden.de/sprachwissen/sprachratgeber/durchschnitt...

[derefr]

I would think max wpm should go down as word-length increases, no?

[Zitrax]

Wouldn't average characters per sentence be a slightly better measure? In German and other Germanic languages it's common with compounded words, thus word XY seem long but would in English just be written as X Y.

[kuschku]

Probably, but then, on Twitter, people abbreviate words in english or leave them out in ways that aren’t possible in German.

It’s hard when you need 3 or 4 tweets for a simple sentence explaining why Sony DCP projectors used to be easier for piracy than competing products.