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Aer Lingus Halts “Language Tests”

by Alison Kroulek March 16, 2012 Languages

Beware of Greeks bearing passports. Until just last week, that’s the attitude that Air Lingus often displayed towards its Greek customers, especially Greek nationals flying into Ireland through Spain and Portugal. To try to catch people traveling on falsified Greek passports, Greek passengers were asked to complete a language test to prove they were fluent [...]

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New Languages Take Tweets in Another Direction

by Alison Kroulek March 13, 2012 Twitter

Twitter added four new language options to its translation repertoire last week: Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu. Like the other languages that the popular online messaging service has been translated into, the task was crowdsourced to volunteers via Twitter’s translation center, allowing it to be completed in just a couple of months. Twitter described the [...]

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Arab Spring Social Media

by Tanguy July 12, 2011 Case Studies

We already know the importance of social media in marketing, brand awareness and communication. Social media now has a major role in democracy and in the fight against repression. In the recent Arab Spring revolution people used social media to communicate about the facts, to organise struggle against tyranny and to raise awareness worldwide. The [...]

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Indigenous Tweets Collects Minority Language Tweets

by Caroline Mikolajczyk April 21, 2011 Twitter

Despite Twitter’s recent efforts at making the site more usable for non-English speakers, it’s probably one of the last places you’d expect to find people using minority and endangered languages to communicate. However, as a new website called Indigenous Tweets illustrates, that’s clearly not the case.

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US Scientists Developing Program to Translate Middle Eastern Tweets

by Caroline Mikolajczyk April 14, 2011 Twitter

The popularity of microblogging service Twitter has spread across the globe, and the US government has taken notice. Twitter was one of the earliest means of communication for the Egyptian protestors, and could potentially be used to gain insight into what ordinary people in the Middle East and South Asia are thinking and feeling.

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Twitter to Crowdsource Translations

by Caroline Mikolajczyk February 24, 2011 Twitter

To help make the service available in more languages as quickly as possible, Twitter just launched a new “Translation Center” where users can help translate the product into their own local languages.

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