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ADAPT
In July 2014, the Football World Cup semi-fi nal
between Germany and Brazil generated 35.6 million
tweets, a Twitter record at the time. Even the fastest
speed readers couldn’t keep up with that volume of
information. Thankfully researchers in the Science
Foundation funded ADAPT Centre for Digital Content
Technology developed the ‘Brazilator’, a live tweet
translation streaming service.