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Re: Twitter Launching in More Languages, Wants You to Help Translate

Jack Niu — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:41:00 -0000

Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize, Twitter Goes Crazy

Re: Twitter Launching in More Languages, Wants You to Help Translate

Steve — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:22:02 -0000

That is quite interesting as I just found like 10 new microblogging sites in different languages through hellotxt. Non seem too established, so Twitter can still dominate.

Re: Twitter Launching in More Languages, Wants You to Help Translate

Chris Gnut — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:54:11 -0000

Great to see Twitter is becoming more aggressive in expanding globally. Should be clarified that this feature will help twitter specifically localize their UI (eg.-menu items, field names, site copy). The real benefit in going global occurs when all of your content (eg. - user generated data, articles, etc) can be translated automatically to attract global visitors.

I decided to do this automatically with my website fairly recently. I was able to not only translate my domestic content automatically for visitors, but my content was automatically indexed and page ranked in search engines greatly boosting my original global traffic (e.g.- page views) by several times.

There are different tools that accomplish this, some better than others (I have personally found success with www.nativetung.com). Nonetheless, nice to see more attention being placed on this important topic.

Re: Twitter Launching in More Languages, Wants You to Help Translate

Marco — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:01:22 -0000

In the past, companies hired professional translators for their translations. Now, they ask the users. Just to save some hundred bucks. Unbelievable that users really do it for free... and we all know the results. Check out some big sites (e.g. Meebo) in a foreign language and find out that their translations sound like they were done by a 12 year old...

Re: Twitter Launching in More Languages, Wants You to Help Translate

krlangas! — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:41:57 -0000

en chileno : que wea tay haciendo???

Re: Twitter Launching in More Languages, Wants You to Help Translate

JesterCap — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:57:01 -0000

I can help to translate to Portuguese!!!

Re: Twitter Launching in More Languages, Wants You to Help Translate

Young — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:06:59 -0000

This message seemed to be heard months ago, I doubt when the translation will be finished. anyway, in Chinese, Twitter should be translated to 推特, or I will bite the translator.

Re: Twitter Launching in More Languages, Wants You to Help Translate

Admin Tekshek — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:48:06 -0000

This twitter feature will increase their visitors

Re: Twitter Launching in More Languages, Wants You to Help Translate

suzeric — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:58:53 -0000

Cool stuff - would like to come on board
German: Was machst Du gerade? (What are you doing)/ Mach mit bei Twitter = Join Twitter // Used to translate website for IT company -there were always complaints that German needs so much space ;-(

Re: Twitter Launching in More Languages, Wants You to Help Translate

Manuel - TreceBits — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:58:35 -0000

En español: ¿Qué estás haciendo?

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Aleksandre Asatiani — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:06:27 -0000

"Invites only" system has its positive sides too. From my experience open translation of Facebook turned to mess, in case of translation to Georgian at least. It is quite difficult to coordinate hundreds of people who have different versions of translation and different opinions. It is managable still, but I would prefer the small filtered team of translators.

Re: Twitter Launching in More Languages, Wants You to Help Translate

Luciano Evaristo Guerche — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:30:16 -0000

In brazilian portuguese it would be:
"O quê você está fazendo?"

Re: Twitter Launching in More Languages, Wants You to Help Translate

ddr2 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:37:23 -0000

Hi...
I love Twitter.I am also I agree on Face Book and My Space I try to add different countries to connect with peoples origins it's fun!!!

Re: Twitter Launching in More Languages, Wants You to Help Translate

nazarchuk — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:14:50 -0000

What about Ukrainian? im keen on helping do it!

Re: Twitter Launching in More Languages, Wants You to Help Translate

Anna — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:47:14 -0000

Well, sam, your translation sounds a little like asking "What are you going to do?", but it's close to what I think is the most appropriate one: "Was machst du gerade?" or "Was tust du gerade?"
Of course, if Twitter wants to adress us the formal way, it could also be: "Was machen Sie gerade?" or "Was tun Sie gerade?" - but I think the first example is the most fitting.

Re: Twitter Launching in More Languages, Wants You to Help Translate

Chorche — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:34:17 -0000

In aragonese language (aragonés) would be: "Que yes fendo agora?" @purnas

Re: Twitter Launching in More Languages, Wants You to Help Translate

Huseyin Gulgun — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:09:12 -0000

In turkish it can be "Ne yapıyorsun?" i would like to help much

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Giusy Comi — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:51:22 -0000

Come si dice "Cosa stai facendo?" in Spagnolo, Francese, Italiano, o Tedesco? Questo è proprio ciò che Twitter vuole sapere, rivolgendosi agli utenti volontari affinchè supportino questo progetto e quindi a tradurre il sito in varie lingue (attualmente Twitter è disponibile solo in Inglese e Giapponese).
Questo nostro progetto è simile a quello che Facebook ha già fatto, cioè tradurre il proprio sito in più di 70 lingue. Tuttavia Facebook è un sito molto più complesso e richiede molte più traduzioni di quello che Twitter ha intenzione di intraprendere.
Ecco quì di seguito il modo in cui Twitter vuole intraprendere tale progetto:
"Abbiamo intenzione di invitare un gruppo di persone affinchè, per prima cosa, diventino traduttori volontari. Più sono i volontari, più le traduzioni suggerite si accumuleranno molto velocemente facendo si che Twitter diventi disponibile non solo in Inglese e Giapponese, ma anche in Francese, Italiano, Tedesco e Spagnolo. Noi distribuiremo le traduzioni agli sviluppatori della piattaforma di Twitter facilitando loro il lavoro di offrire supporti multilinguistici".
In pratica, le traduzioni saranno una grande opportunità per Twitter per allargare i suoi orizzonti.
Facebook è cresciuto rapidamente nel mondo grazie all'operato del progetto delle sue traduzioni e sta persino entrando con irruenza in quei Paesi dominati da alri network, come per esempio in Brasile dove Orkut è attualmente al top.
Poichè Twitter attualmente sta facendo solo degli inviti, vi preghiamo di partecipare con le vostre traduzione nel commenti.

Re: Twitter Launching in More Languages, Wants You to Help Translate

saddek — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:43:09 -0000

In Arabic it would be:
ماذا تفعل الآن؟

Re: Twitter Launching in More Languages, Wants You to Help Translate

Ann S. Michaelsen — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:14:32 -0000

According to Facebook the Norwegian phrase is: "Hva tenker du på?"

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Jerry Zambrano — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:27:18 -0000

Not too bad of an idea. I've always stuck with idea of following the languages one can read or understand. Being poly-glottal (more than 2 languages lol) I accept that English is the preferred language. But then again, Twitter user's are your every day people, and not necessarily your multiple language speaking folks.
As Twitter works on this, I hope they keep in mind that one of the allures of their site, is its simplicity. What I like about Twitter over Facebook, is that there are no REAL third-party apps that one uses (Games, Bingos, Quizzes etc.) just API's to contend with.

Here's hoping Twitter going international well.

Re: Twitter Launching in More Languages, Wants You to Help Translate

jennifer — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:32:33 -0000

"what are you doing?"

Portuguese(from Portugal, not Brazil): "¿Que estás a fazer?"
Catalan(one of Spain's most important languages after Spanish): "¿Que fas?"
Spanish: "Que estás haciendo?" or "¿Que haces?"

Re: Twitter Launching in More Languages, Wants You to Help Translate

Sheribaby_SPH — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:07:11 -0000

Twitter is 140 characters Translation of english to whatever language has the possibility of more then 140 characters
Russian: Twitter будет переводом 140 характеров английской языка к любой язык имеет возможность более после этого 140 характеров
Norwegian:Twitter er 140 figurer Oversettelse av engelsk til uansett språk har muligheten for mer enn 140 figurer
German:Twitter ist die 140 Buchstaben übersetzung von Englisch zu, was Sprache die Möglichkeit von dann 140 Buchstaben hat
French:Twitter est traduction de 140 caractères de l'anglais à quelque langue ait la possibilité puis de 140 caractères
Dutch: Twitter is 140 karaktersVertaling van het Engels aan welk taal ook de mogelijkheid van meer toen 140 karakters heeft
Spanish: Twitter es traducción de 140 caracteres del inglés a cualquier lengua tiene la posibilidad más entonces de 140 caracteres
Sheribaby_SPH Twitter

Re: Twitter Launching in More Languages, Wants You to Help Translate

mderoberts — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:57:03 -0000

I deposited a couple of cents here...http://bit.ly/18Qpww

Re: Twitter Launching in More Languages, Wants You to Help Translate

zulfadly — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:53:56 -0000

I can help translate English to Malay. "What are you doing?" would be "Apa yang sedang dibuat?" Or "Apa yang awak buat sekarang?"