Twitter officially Rolls Out Bing Translation

Twitter has taken the wraps off its lengthy-running experiment with Bing Translator, announcing nowadays that it’s going to now provide translations of tweets in multiple languages.

The function has been activated for the desktop platform and iOS and Android units. It additionally is still energetic on the windows cellphone app.

Tweets that aren’t in customers’ native languages display with a globe within the higher proper-hand nook of the tweet. Clicking or tapping on the globe actives the translator, which works for more than 40 languages. (simply apparently no longer Klingon. The megastar Trek language is supported by Bing, but didn’t work for our check these days on Twitter.)

earlier this month, we stated that Twitter had brought the characteristic to TweetDeck. the corporate has been experimenting with language translation since February 2012.

The move fits in well with Twitter’s oft-stated intention to be the sector’s public square. Bing translations aren’t excellent, however they may be able to be a tight tough estimate of that means. Twitter notes on the toughen web page for the function that “the consequences still range and continuously fall beneath the accuracy and fluency of translations supplied via a professional translator. that is why, the unique textual content is all the time displayed above its translation.”

Postscript: This story has been updated to note that Twitter’s affiliation with Bing Translate never faltered on one platform, home windows phone. as it should be, the Microsoft software’s Twitter app has had the feature seeing that June of 2013, as Daniel Rubino, editor in chief of windows important, stated to me on Twitter. additionally, I’ve corrected an error within the put up. I wrote past that Twitter had been testing Bing Translation for the reason that July 2013, relatively than the suitable February 2012.

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Martin Beck

Martin Beck is 1/3 Door Media’s Social Media Reporter, covering the most recent news for advertising Land and Search Engine Land. He spent 24 years with the l. a. instances, serving as social media and reader engagement editor from 2010-2014. A graduate of UC Irvine and the university of Missouri journalism college, Beck started began his career on the times as a sportswriter and replica editor.