This work presents the process of collecting, preparing and publishing the Pluricentric Corpus of Tweets in Portuguese Language (CPLP:tuítes). CPLP:tuítes is a corpus composed of 125,827 tweets and a total of 2,633,507 tokens. The tweets come from 53 newspaper accounts or news providers in Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, and São Tomé and Príncipe. This corpus is part of the Portuguese Database (BDP), a repository that will offer free access to corpora, as well

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... the instruments used to prepare them, with content in Portuguese produced in the 11 countries where Portuguese is an official language. The first version of CPLP:tuítes was lemmatized and tagged for grammatical classes and is available via CQPweb, a corpus search and statistical analysis program that features a friendly and accessible interface via a web browser, with no installation required. The article also presents a brief discussion on decisions to be made when preparing a reference corpus for the representation of a pluricentric language in its many varieties.