Twitter introduces its new product that will help it reach the rest of the world and at the same time localize its services – the Twitter Translation Center. Twitter’s own translation center. The product aims to translate twitter itself not the tweets.
Twitter will crowdsource the translations. This means the twitter users themselves will take part in the project. They can sign in to the translation center and choose a language they can translate Twitter into. Twitter states on their official blog that this crowdsourcing isn’t new to them :
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.
Currently, Twitter is available in 7 languages : English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish. Even though these languages are established Twitter languages these will also be included on the translation center so users can continue developing each of them.
