Twitter aims to go local in the coming months

Twitter aims to go local in the coming months

Twitter is the hottest social networking service on the web right now. Facebook is still the biggest.

One of the problems accessing Twitter for people around the world is the language barrier.

Twitter.com is only available in English and Japanese language right now and they plan to change that.

Facebook gained massively with the launch of localized versions. It is now available in almost all the major languages used in the world along with some weird ones.

Twitter is for now planning to launch French, German, Italian, and Spanish language versions of the service.

They are going to use crowdsourcing for this. The company has invited a select group of Twitter users to help them out in translation.

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone spoke about this initiative: “We will distribute the translations to Twitter platform developers making it easier for them to offer multiple language support as well. We’re very excited that more people will be able to use Twitter in their native language!”.