Last month, Twitter noted that it was seeking volunteers to help translate its service into other languages. Today, the first of those is ready to go, as Twitter has formally unveiled support for the Spanish language.
The Twitter Blog has a post about it right now, but co-founder Biz Stone has cheekily written it entirely in Spanish. We’ll go ahead and translate it for you:
Earlier this month we invited volunteers to translate into more languages Twitter. Thanks to these enthusiastic volunteers, Twitter is now officially available in Spanish. You can change the language or visit Twitter.com Settings and change the language setting in the option at the bottom right corner.
Some [Spanish-speaking users] Pepe Aguilar (@ PepeAguilar), Manu Ginobili (@ manuginobili), Jose Hernandez (@ Astro_Jose), Andreu Buenafuente (@ buenafuente), Juan Fonseca (@ Fonseca) and La Moncloa in Spain (@ desdelamoncloa) had discovered the Twitter value even before we released the translated version. We hope to offer Twitter in Spanish means more people able to access and enjoy this service.
Welcome!
Spanish joins Japanese as the only languages besides English that Twitter currently supports. But more are coming soon, as Twitter previously noted that they’d like to have the “FIGS” languages. The “S” in there is Spanish with the others being French, Italian, and German.
Official support for other languages should undoubtedly help Twitter continue to grow after stalling a bit in recent months. And this Spanish support should also kneecap Meme, Yahoo’s Spanish Twitter clone (which is now also in English).
Twitter also has a new official Spanish account to follow on the service.
waiting for more languages…
Helping to work on the French!
Good to see another language . Waiting to see more language here in Twitter .
Awesome Job Twitter! Muy Bueno.
I’ve been awaiting this for weeks, that is why we have made the folder Latin – Spanish – Celebrities at TweetFind.com
http://www.twee...elebrities.html
Ruben
Que bueno que ya terminaron! gracias a todos los que colaboraron!
TMOBILE OUT FOR THE WHOLE COUNTRY – see trending topics on twitter.
I already have a site(http://www.twitlan.com ) where you can tweet in 51 languages and much more coming up..
but need to do some good marketing in $$$$
Been waiting for this!! Twitter will explode in Latin America in the next few months.
Related article in spanish: http://www.gent...es-una-realidad
How about Portuguese? Brazil would be a huge market. And it will only get bigger. Portuguese is one of the most popular languages in the world.
Not true!
it feels weird to be so much hope
Awesome, how do you say SPAM in spanish or latin?
just SPAM, we don’t translate many technological words. We can also say “Correo no deseado” = “Unwanted email”
Awesome. We’re rolling out CloudProfile with TelMex and this will be a big help.
I invite all Spanish readers to have a look that the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy of Twitter in Spanish. You will find examples of literal translations, Spanglish, mistranslations… I wonder if there is any twitter user with no legal or legal translation background who could translate those parts of the Website without making mistakes. I am a Sworn translator and even in that case, the lawyers I work with want to see the texts I translate before delivering them. Only because I am not a lawyer. Will Twitter’s lawyers let outsiders write the ToS and Privacy Policy and publish them with no further review?
More on: http://e-sanche...in-translation/
Twitter, your next language has to be Chinese. I am sure you don’t want to miss out 380 million market.