Twitter enables multiple language tweet translation

Twitter has introduced tweet translation with Bing Translator. The feature enables users to read tweets that is in another language. Twitter joins Google Translate, Skype, Facebook Translate in the quest to allow for communication across different languages.

Writing on its Help Center post, Twitter wrote, “With Tweet translation, you won’t miss any of the action unfolding on Twitter. You can choose when you want to see a translation for a Tweet, and you can also adjust your settings so the option to view Tweet translations is disabled”.

The translation is possible in more than 40 language pairs.

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Though the feature works with more than 40 different languages, Twitter has warned that language searches will often fall below the accuracy and fluency of translations provided by a professional translator. This feature will be good enough for a loose understanding of the tweet a user is trying to translate.

The feature is available on Twitter.com, Twitter for iOS and Android, and TweetDeck.

Users can adjust the tweet translation, the company said, “by logging into your account on a desktop or laptop computer, go to your account settings and locate the tweet translation section. From there, you can change your tweet translation setting by checking the box next to “Show tweet translations.”

Once this is complete, a little globe icon located in a tweet written in a different language. And then simply click the tweet to expand the globe and a translation of the text in the tweet will appear below the original.