¿Cómo se dice ‘Tweet’ en español? Twitter moves into other languages

October 8, 2009 | Kim-Mai Cutler | Comments | |

1Twitter will crowdsource translations for its site in French, Italian, German and Spanish as it pushes for an audience outside the English-speaking world.

The company will ask a small group of volunteer translators to begin making suggestions and then widen it out to more people. Twitter has only been available in English and Japanese thus far.

Facebook also used a similar strategy in rolling its site out to non-English speaking audiences by relying on volunteer translators. It just released the technology behind that so other businesses can tap their Facebook communities for translations.

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Kim-Mai was born and raised a stone's throw from Apple headquarters in Cupertino by a devout Hewlett-Packard family. After attending UC Berkeley, Kim-Mai worked for Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires in New York, Los Angeles, London and Buenos Aires. Follow her on Twitter at @kimmaicutler, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.

  • It was only a matter of time before they expanded into other languages. I wonder how their servers will handle the extra traffic.
  • Twitter and Facebook are definately moving in the right direction by going international. I think Myspace is falling behind though.

    -Nikki-