With the latest additions, the micro-blogging service is now available in a total of 33 different languages. Users can switch their language in settings menu and tweet in the dialect of their choice.
In fact, the three languages included are among the top six most-requested languages since Twitter introduced its Translation Center in 2011. The company incorporated support for Ukrainian and Catalan, two of the other top six, in early July.
“We would like to thank you, our dedicated translators, who made this launch happen by requesting and supporting Twitter in your language,” Twitter wrote in a blog post Monday. “You are the ones who help us get closer to making Twitter available around the world.”
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Twitter last year launched Translation Center, a crowd-sourced effort to make more languages available in its 140-character format. In addition, each of the translated languages comes courtesy of Twitter’s 500,0000-person volunteer community that works around the globe to help the company meet the communication needs of its expanding user base.
Twitter is now available in 3 new Beta languages: Basque, Czech and Greek. Congratulations translators! translate.twttr.com/cms/node/2457
— Twitter Int’l (@international) August 6, 2012
Back in March, Twitter launched in Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew, and Urdu, marking the first time the micro-blogging service offered right-to-left languages. Besides, the inclusion of new languages are also being introduced on account of the Olympic games, which means people of Greece and the citizens of the Czech Republic, along with those Basque-speaking folks in Spain and France, can now cheer on their national heroes and favorite athletes in their native tongues.
Twitter initiated adding foreign languages in April 2008, when it launched in Japanese. It followed with Spanish and French in November 2009. Last year, Twitter continued these efforts, adding Russian and Turkish in April; Dutch and Indonesian in August; then Chinese, Hindi, Filipino, and Malay in September.
Nevertheless, if your native tongue is not yet supported on Twitter, you can file a language request with the company. Twitter said it will soon be opening up Translation Center to translators of “nearly all” languages.