Twitter International Services Blog

News and updates from our global community of engineers and volunteers who help make Twitter a truly international platform.

Meet your community

Thursday, September 26, 2013 | By Isabela Bagueros (@Isa), Product Manager, International Services  [20:44 UTC]
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Learn more about our new community dashboard and other elements of a redesigned Twitter Translation Center.Read more…

A new day, a new look

Tuesday, September 24, 2013 | By Lena Zuniga (@lenazun), Localization Manager [18:24 UTC]
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The International Services blog has a new look.Read more…

Bob’s your uncle - UK English now live

Thursday, June 20, 2013 | By International services team (@translator) [01:39 UTC]
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“UK English” is now a language option available for people using twitter.com. If you are one of those who prefer to favourite your favourites, and see your Twitter experience localised (rather than localized), you can make this adjustment in your twitter.com settings.Read more…

Lau hizkuntza gehiago! Four more languages!

Wednesday, February 20, 2013 | By International services team (@translator) [01:20 UTC]
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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.

And Last summer, we launched twitter.com is now available in Romanian and Galician. With today’s releases, and thanks to our community of translators, Twitter is now available in more than 35 languages.Read more…

Mediums conversorum Twitteri nunc Latine apertus est*

Wednesday, December 12, 2012 | By International services team (@translator) [01:29 UTC]
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*The Twitter Translation Center is now open for Latin

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.Read more…

Typhoon Pablo help in the Philippines

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 | By International services team (@translator) [01:28 UTC]
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International relief efforts are underway in the Mindanao and Visayas regions in the Philippines after the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) issued alerts for a typhoon. Its international name is “Bopha” and in the Philippines, it’s known as “Pablo”, and it hit land on the morning of December 4th.

Here is a list of Twitter accounts that are posting information about relief efforts in the affected areas:Read more…

A World of Translators

Thursday, November 8, 2012 | By International services team (@translator) [01:31 UTC]
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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:Read more…

Languages on the Go

Wednesday, September 12, 2012 | By International services team (@translator) [01:36 UTC]
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Exciting news! We are opening the Twitter Translation Center for sixteen new languages! They are:Read more…

A redesigned translation flow

Monday, September 10, 2012 | By International services team (@translator) [01:35 UTC]
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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.Read more…

Twitter Now Available in Basque, Czech and Greek

Monday, August 6, 2012 | By International services team (@translator) [01:37 UTC]
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Last May, we opened our Translation Center to 6 new languages using a new set of features we’ve created to make the translation process faster. There is more automation and more efficiency in this new system that allows for faster input from the translator community. On July 5th, we released Twitter.com in Ukrainian and Catalan as the first two languages from this batch.

Today we’re excited to announce that Twitter is now available in three more languages: Basque, Czech and Greek. You can now go to your account settings to start using Twitter in your language.Read more…

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