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In a move which brought back memories of the way Facebook went about its translation project, Twitter has requested its users to help it translate its services into different languages. Although right now the site is focusing its efforts on Spanish, French, German and Italian translation and is working with a small team of language translation providers, it has its doors open for just about any language. Language translation professionals all over the world who are interested in contributing their skills and expertise to Twitter can sign up at http://twitter.com/translate#translate_signup.
Translators working with Twitter would be getting a free badge displayed on their profiles. And depending upon the amount of translations they have carried out, the translators would be classified into levels from 1 to 10.
Twitter has also created leatherboards for every language that’s being translated. These provide translators with a bit more incentive than the plain knowledge that they have contribute to the site. You can check out the leatherboard for French translation at http://twitter.com/translate/leaders/fr.
Twitter also intends to offer translation files to the developer community as various language translations of the site get completed so that they are able to translate their Twitter apps for different language speaking markets.
Twitter has tried its best to ensure success by following a strategy that has already worked fantastically well in the case of none other than Facebook. Back in 2008 Facebook made the same move and it has paid huge dividends which have reflected in the site’s remarkable international growth.
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