Friday, November 6, 2009

Twitter Expands Into More Than Just 2 Languages

from WebPro News

Update: Twitter is now supporting the Spanish language.

Original Article: 
Twitter announced that it intends to roll out the service in the French, Italian, German, and Spanish languages. Currently it's only available in English and Japanese. 

Expanding into more languages should have a profound impact on Twitter's growth in new users. The company doesn't plan to stop there either though. Co-founder Biz Stone says that's just a starting point. 

Twitter is taking a cue from Facebook and calling upon users to help with translations. The company has launched a tool for people with experience in different languages to suggest translations for the Twitter site itself. "Then, we'll follow up technically," says Stone.

Twitter Translation tool

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