Twitter may be preparing auto-translate option

Source: PCMAG.com
Story flagged by: Jared Tabor

Twitter appears to be preparing to roll out a feature that would automatically translate posts into your preferred native language.

Source: PCMAG.com

Sounds like an interesting new way to misunderstand and be misunderstood…

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Twitter may be preparing auto-translate option
Nille Jamvold Klaussen
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Mar 28, 2010

I can definitely imagine how some of these posts would be to read… Especially in languages far from the source language.

 
Jared Tabor
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Mar 28, 2010

Exactly, Nille! If you think some tweets are cryptic now, wait until MT gets a hold of them...

 
l Gaston l
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Mar 26, 2010

I can't wait to see this happening. I have some Chinese guys to follow!

 

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