Mon, 04/02/2012 - 15:36
Twitter connects people everywhere to what matters most to them. On the international team, we’re especially focused on the “everywhere” part. Today we’re kicking off this new blog to offer a glimpse into the whole world of the International team: the work we do, the challenges we face, and the people that make it all possible.
Mon, 05/14/2012 - 16:52
Twitter is now available in 28 languages, thanks in large part to our incredible community of translators and moderators. We appreciate their hard work to help make Twitter available around the world.
In recognition of the time they volunteer, we offer a special “translator” badge for their profiles:
Next month, we’ll be making some changes to the way that badges are assigned to translators, and wanted to give a preview of what’s to come.
Wed, 05/16/2012 - 13:28
Since we launched our Translation Center last year, we’ve received thousands of language requests. Currently the most requested languages are Catalan, Afrikaans, Ukrainian, Greek, Czech and Basque. Today we’re excited to announce that we’re opening up the Twitter Translation Center for those six languages.
Tue, 06/19/2012 - 17:38
Greetings from the new Twitter Headquarters in San Francisco, California! First of all, we want to thank those of you who are translating Twitter into your language. With your support, we’re getting closer to making Twitter available to more people around the world.
Background
Last May, we opened the Translation Center to 6 new languages using a new set of features we’ve created to make the translation process faster. This means that there is more automation and more efficiency, allowing for faster input from the translator community.
Updates
Mon, 09/10/2012 - 13:30
Since we first launched the Twitter Translation Center, we’ve always kept our eyes (and ears) open for feedback from translators. Both the Glossary and Similar Phrases––two features that make translation faster, easier and more consistent––were initially suggested by translators.
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 14:04
Exciting news! We are opening the Twitter Translation Center for sixteen new languages! They are:
- Irish
- Tamil
- Galician
- Welsh
- Serbian
- Bulgarian
- Kurdish
- Vietnamese
- Croatian
- Romanian
- Latvian
- Kannada
- Belarusian
- Bengali
- Albanian
- Slovak
Thu, 11/08/2012 - 12:35
Thousands of volunteers help us translate Twitter into fifty languages, bringing people around the world closer to the things they care about. To highlight the awesome work of our translators, we’ve launched Achievements, a new feature on our Translation Center profile pages.
There are three types of Achievements badges:
Wed, 12/12/2012 - 18:21
Thanks to 800,000 volunteer translators around the world, we've been able to bring Twitter to speakers of living languages from Afrikaans to Welsh.
Wed, 02/20/2013 - 12:19
Last summer, we launched twitter.com in Basque and Catalan, and today, we’re bringing these languages to Twitter’s mobile website, mobile.twitter.com.