As Twitter looks to expand itself around the world, localized translations of the website are a must, and as Facebook has shown, crowdsourced voluntary translations are the most effective way doing this.
Today Twitter hasannouncedthat its first crowdsourced translations, into Dutch and Indonesian, have gone live – the first fruit of theTranslation Centerit launched earlier this year. This site, which resides on Twitter’s original domain of Twttr.com, provides the tools for volunteers to offer localized versions of all the part s of Twitter’s Web interface and mobile apps. Twitter then works with a group of the most active translators to maintain localized versions.
Twitter says that it has amassed 200,000 translators across all languages and is next turning its attention to Filipino and Malay. Given that the translation projects launched today only took a month to complete, these next localizations shouldn’t be far behind.
Today’s announcement brings the number of languages Twitter is available in to 11.
Story byMartin SFP Bryant
Martin SFP Bryant is the founder of UK startup newsletter PreSeed Now and technology and media consultancy Big Revolution. He was previously(show all)Martin SFP Bryant is the founder of UK startup newsletterPreSeed Nowand technology and media consultancyBig Revolution. He was previously Editor-in-Chief at TNW.
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