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  • Twitter in Basque, Czech, & Greek Now a Reality

    Three more languages have graduated from Twitter’a translation center. Now, Twitter is available in Basque, Czech, and Greek.

    From the Twitter translation center blog:

    Last May, we opened our Translation Center to 6 new languages using a new set of features we’ve created to make the translation process faster. There is more automation and more efficiency in this new system that allows for faster input from the translator community.

    We’d like to thank you, our dedicated translators, who made this launch happen by requesting and supporting Twitter in your language. You are the ones who help us get closer to making Twitter available around the world.

    Back in May, Twitter added Basque, Czech, Greek, Ukrainian, Catalan, and Afrikaans to the Translation center, where volunteers immediately got to work translating the site (site frame, not the tweets). The first two of those languages to launch from the Center were Ukrainian and Catalan, which became available in early July. Not, with the launch of these three new languages, all we are waiting on in Afrikaans from that class.

    Before this, Twitter became available in right-to-left languages Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, and Urdu.

    The addition of Greek, Czech, and Basque means that Twitter is officially available in 33 different languages.

    [Image via Harald Groven, Flickr]

  • Twitter Translation Center Opens Up

    Twitter Translation Center Opens Up

    Twitter has announced the launch of the Twitter Translation Center, which crowdsources translations from Twitter users. 

    "Translators will be translating the product itself, not the Tweets. If you go to the settings page on Twitter.com and change your language, you’ll see what we mean," explains product manager Jinen Kamdar. "Crowdsourcing translations isn’t new for us. Since October, 2009, we’ve counted on Twitter users to volunteer as translators and help us localize Twitter. For this launch, we created a completely new system, based on feedback from translators, to improve the translation experience."

    We just launched our new and improved translation product! More details here: http://t.co/p58wAje.less than a minute ago via webJinen Kamdar
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    "The new Translation Center allows any Twitter user to sign up, choose a language and begin translating immediately," adds Kamdar. "Translators can now help localize twitter.com, mobile.twitter.com, Twitter for iPhone and iPad, Twitter for Android, Twitter Help and the Twitter Business Center. We also improved the Center’s search functionality, added phrase tagging, created special translator profiles, enabled commenting on phrases and much more."

    Twitter is currently offered in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish. The company says the next languages will be Indonesian, Russian and Turkish, and these have been added to the Translation Center.

    Twitter Translation Center launches