Twitter Provide Options Indonesian

Almost all Internet service providers trying to provide a choice of local languages ​​in each country. That is one way to reach more users who are not too familiar with the English language and supports intimacy antarpengguna to interact with everyday language.

No lag, Twitter, the microblogging service was five years old. One by one its services translated into non-English language. Starting with Twitter speaking Japanese in 2008, followed by Spanish and French in 2009.

Well, starting Monday (01/08/2011), Twitter also provides a choice of Indonesian language. Whether coincidence or not, the Indonesian version is present along with the Dutch who had a history of closeness.

Total now there are 12 languages ​​to choose from Twitter users. In addition to these six languages​​, there is a choice of Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Russian, Turkish, and German.

However, interestingly, translation into Indonesian and Dutch different from other languages​​. For the first time took the Twitter community.

"The Netherlands and Indonesia is the first language to be translated entirely by community volunteers using the Translation Center recently opened earlier this year," written on the official Twitter blog. To select the Indonesian language, Twitter users can just go into settings and select the language and save.

Through these collaborative programs, Twitter was invited volunteers to translate the page Twitter.com, support pages, as well as desktop and mobile applications, unless of course, writing or tweet sent all Twitter users.

There is now 200 000 interpreters who join in this program to translate into various languages ​​in the world. Translation into Dutch and Indonesia, according to Twitter, considered very fast because it only lasts for a month. The model is then used to translate into the language of the Philippines and Malaysia.
source : kompas.com