It has always been a dilemma for me to use twitter/tweet in other languages. If you are one of my twitter follower then you must have noticed that I always try different twitter tools and services to improve my tweets and conversation ratio. If you are looking a way to improve your twitter conversation ratio the you can follow me on twitter from here.
Twitter is planning to integrate language option in their API but why do you want to wait when you already have some tools that can help you to tweet in your regional languages. It is always advisable to target users according to the region or language they speak. Here I am listing five such tools that will help you to tweet in other languages.
Twitter In Other Languages Like Hindi
Twitter in different languages
1.Twitlan: Twitlan is one of the best and the first website that lets you tweet in different languages. Currently it supports 81 different languages. Indian users will be glad to know that many Indian languages are supported by twitlen.
2.Quillpad: Quillpad is very helpful for Indian users as it supports only Indian languages. All you need to do is to type your tweet in your language (in English. ex aap kaise ho?) and it will convert it into your chosen language, just copy-paste that message to twitter and tweet it.
3.Twitrans: Twitrans converts your tweet into the desired language (only 14 languages are supported). To use this service you need to use short codes of the language to translate into the desired language (ex @twitrans en2hi I want to type this message in hindi). You can check those short codes at their website. In the above example the twitrans converts English language tweet into Hindi language. I personally don’t like this service as it takes lot of time to translate the tweets.
4.Wakooz: Wakooz uses Google translator service to convert your tweets into other language tweets. It doesn’t take much time as it is using a Google translator. I personally recommend this service to our readers.
5.Google Translator: Well I guess I do not need to say more about this service as you must be aware of this service. Convert your twitter tweets into any language using Google translator and then copy it into twitter message bar and push the button.
Let us know if you have come across any other services like above. Have you tried the above services?
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10:13 pm on November 23rd, 2009
I think that twitter is the most successful social platform & thus blogger can’t be away from that no matter languages barrier are there.
Thanks for the cool info.
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10:30 pm on November 23rd, 2009
Good one…….. twitter is really doing great……….
10:41 pm on November 23rd, 2009
I have used Twitrans and quillpad for sometime. But do not tweet much other than English
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10:50 pm on November 23rd, 2009
Not sure if I’ll ever have to tweet in another language but it looks like a promising list for those who need to.
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7:44 am on November 24th, 2009
@Gabe|freebloghelp.com
You can refer the post whenever you need to use tweet in your language. Most of the people prefer to tweet in English only as it is globally accepted and the only medium to understand. Anyway thank you for liking the post.
7:50 am on November 24th, 2009
@Sandesh Macranhas
Thank you for the comment buddy. Keep in touch
7:52 am on November 24th, 2009
@techprism
There is no language barrier when you use the twitter tools and service I have mentioned in this post
11:02 am on November 24th, 2009
I personally only tweet and read tweets in English, otherwise I just pass it by. Good to know that there are tools to do this and it’s probably got a strong following.
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3:14 pm on November 24th, 2009
Great tools, been using google translate to translate my tweet but I still wonder the quality and exactly my tweet will be? And do followers unfollow me when I tweet in various languages?
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7:12 pm on November 24th, 2009
@George Serradinho
I also feel that this is a good way to target the local audience but I am still afraid of other followers. It might make them feel uncomfortable plus I see that the third party application like tweetdeck is not showing the message in other language.
7:15 pm on November 24th, 2009
@Phaoloo
It is a matter of concern. If the follower doen’t understand your tweet then they might opt to unfollow you. But you need to take this calculated risk if you are looking to target the users according to region. The success formula is to not to overdo it
9:35 pm on November 24th, 2009
that’s great to know, i always wanted to tweet in multiple Indian languages, thanks for the list,
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7:33 am on November 25th, 2009
Twitter is day by day extending services..In mean time it may side Google..
Nice tip…
10:22 am on November 25th, 2009
Twitter always come up with great options. using different language is useful is you want to promote your blog or product in local market and target local audience.
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6:09 pm on November 25th, 2009
Never know about this before. Thanks for sharing Ricky.
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7:23 am on November 26th, 2009
I think Twitter should have many other languages added to ease the process as their members are not only from English-speaking countries. Thanks for great tools
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3:53 pm on November 26th, 2009
@Tinh
You are right. Twitter should have included support for other languages as well.
4:00 pm on November 26th, 2009
@Shivaraj
Huh? I doubt that twitter can sideline Google. Infact Google can think of buying or doing some sort of deal with twitter.
4:22 pm on November 26th, 2009
@ricky, yep its too early to say that twitter can sideline google in anyway, google is way to big at the moment… but twitter provides a realtime search service… which might some day over shadow other search engines…
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5:57 pm on November 26th, 2009
@Uttoran Sen
Yes Google is too big for twitter. Google will definitely come out with something better like Google wave.