Twitter announced via its official blog today that it has begun working on adding support for right-to-left languages for the microblogging website. The company is beginning translation work for Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu using volunteers in the Twitter Translation Center.
The Twitter Translation Center takes a crowd-sourced approach to translating and localizing Twitter for people around the world. More than 425,000 volunteers contribute to the Translation Center, and to date have helped make Twitter available in 22 languages. With their help, these will be the next four.
Twitter explains that it has developed a way to make sure that tweets and hashtags will appear properly in right-to-left languages, as well as giving users a more "localized experience."
If everything goes as planned, the company will be introducing these four new languages sometime in the spring.
[...] right-to-left languages, including Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi, and Urdu. Back in late January, Twitter revealed that it had begun translating the website with the help of volunteers, but neglected to give an [...]
[...] right-to-left languages, including Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi, and Urdu. Back in late January, Twitter revealed that it had begun translating the website with the help of volunteers, but neglected to give an [...]