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Twitter overhauls its Translation Center, adds Turkish, Indonesian and Russian
Translating phrases earns you experience points, and ultimately yields level-ups. You don't actually get anything by leveling up -- you just end up at the top of a feel-good leader board. If you're an active translator, though, you do get a badge on your profile page -- and as we all know, except for having wheelbarrows of cash, badges are the single most important metric of social status.
To get started, head on over to the Twitter Translation Center and connect it to your Twitter account. You can choose from a bunch of languages, and your translation services aren't limited to just the Twitter.com website: you can translate the mobile website and iPhone and Android apps, too.
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Subscribe to commentsmkoFeb 15th 2011 7:52PM
Last time I checked Twitter had a very small userbase in Turkey.
It might have been improved. Even the president uses it
http://torrentfreak.com/turkey-president-pirate-110213
kamron_1Feb 17th 2011 2:16AM
This is actually exactly what Facebook has had for (as far as I know) a little over a year but there was one major difference that made it all the more enjoyable on Facebook: inline translation. That is, right-clicking anything that can be translated in Facebook (assuming you've got translation enabled on your account) will give you a window showing translations submitted by other users as well as a prompt to make your own translation. That translation would then be displayed, giving context to the translated words or phrases.
I'm in for the Русский translation however.
Sebastian AnthonyFeb 17th 2011 5:02AM
@kamron_1 It sounds like Twitter _used_ to have inline translating! But moved to this new Center.
Or maybe you can still do inline translation, and the new Center is just additional :)