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Join Twitter, Win the World Series
Friday, February 18, 2011
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Translating Twitter into more languages
Monday, February 14, 2011
Today we're announcing a product that is a major step toward making Twitter more easily accessible by people around the world - the Twitter Translation Center. The Translation Center allows us to crowdsource translations from our passionate users in order to more quickly launch Twitter in additional languages.
Translators will be translating the product itself, not the Tweets. If you go to the settings page on Twitter.com and change your language, you’ll see what we mean.
We currently offer Twitter in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish. These languages are all included in the Translation Center so translators can continue to help us with updates. We’ve also added Indonesian, Russian and Turkish to the Translation Center, as Twitter will be translated to those languages next. We plan to introduce more languages throughout the year, such as Portuguese.
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.
twitter.com/translate and follow @translator for the latest updates. -
Twitter for Android - new and improved
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Twitter for Android is one of the fastest growing Twitter applications. Six months ago, it wasn’t among the top 10 most-used Twitter applications. However, in the last two months, usage has doubled, and now it’s among the top five – along with twitter.com, m.twitter.com (our mobile web site), Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Blackberry.
Today, we’re launching a
Search
We’ve also introduced universal search to this version of Twitter for Android. This means that when you search, you can find Tweets with the term you’re looking for, Tweets sent by people near your location, or people whose user names include that term.
For example, let’s say you want to search for “packers". As you type “packers” in the search box, you’ll see the following suggestions:- search packers: this will return Tweets that include the word “packers”
- search packers nearby: this will return Tweets that include the word “packers” and are sent by nearby users
- search packers in people: this will return accounts that have “packers” in the name
- @packers: this option will skip search results and take you directly to the account, if it exists (in this example, it does)
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#superbowl
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
A recordPug Attack" commercial was a popular favorite, was this year’s champion. Audi and Pepsi took a close second and third, followed by Chevy, Coca-Cola and Groupon.