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Twitter Is Now Officially Available En Español

by amyellensoden | November 4, 2009 at 12:14 pm

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Twitter is now available in Spanish as of today. Twitter co-founder BizStone posted a Twitter blog written entirely en español to mark the occasion.

Twitter language settings can now be altered in the option section at the bottom right corner of the main page. Once switched, the entire Twitter template will appear in Spanish.

Spanish joins Japanese as the only languages besides English that Twitter currently supports. But more are coming soon, as Twitter previously noted that they’d like to have the “FIGS” languages. The “S” in there is Spanish with the others being French, Italian, and German.

Official support for other languages should undoubtedly help Twitter continue to grow after stalling a bit in recent months. And this Spanish support should also kneecap Meme, Yahoo’s Spanish Twitter clone (which is now also in English).

Twitter has had volunteers translate the service for the last few months before releasing it to the public. This is undoubtedly part of Twitter's plan to grow overseas after recently reaching a plateau in general activity. Having language options successfully increased activity for Facebook so it is possible that Twitter is looking to do the same.

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