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Published On - June 13, 2014

Richard Brooks Language BlogTags: Machine Translation, Twitter

Twitter Expands Use of Bing Translation

To celebrate the beginning of the World Cup in Brazil, Twitter has begun using Bing Translation to make it easier to read tweets in other languages. The translation feature was already available on the Twitter webpage and Windows phones, and Twitter began testing it on its Android app a couple of we...

Published On - September 16, 2013

Richard Brooks Inside Track, Multilingual SearchTags: Google, Technology, Twitter

Multilingual SEO

If you’re a native English speaker, then you may believe that the internet is dominated by the English language. Almost all of the computer code, social networking, e-commerce and news sites that are most popular with English speakers were developed in the English-speaking world, and they mesh...

Published On - July 11, 2013

Richard Brooks Inside TrackTags: Machine Translation, Translation, Twitter

Twitter Enters the Murky World of Machine Translation

Last week you may have heard, or even seen, that Twitter has been trialling automated translation of tweets from certain individuals in Egypt. Following the recent political upheaval, the former president Mohammed Morsi, opposition leader Mohammed ElBaradei and Arab Spring activist Wael Ghonim have ...

Published On - January 24, 2013

Richard Brooks Language BlogTags: Latin, Twitter

The Pope Tweets in Latin

Change sometimes comes slowly to the Catholic Church. However, last month the Vatican’s communications strategy took a huge leap forward when Pope Benedict XVI joined other world leaders on Twitter, under the username @Pontifex. At first, his Holiness tweeted in English on his main account, wi...

Published On - April 7, 2012

Richard Brooks Language BlogTags: Twitter

Do You Tweet With an Accent?

It’s amazing how much information can be conveyed in a mere 140 characters, even without your knowledge. For example, did you know that analyzing your tweets can show where you come from? In fact, in a study last year by Carnegie Mellon University, researchers found that they could narrow dow...

Twitter: the New Haiku?‎

Twitter, the microblogging social network that limits users to “tweets” of 280 characters or less, is popular across the globe. However, communicating with the world in 280-character bursts has really taken off in Japan, especially after the earthquake and its accompanying tsunami earlier this y...

Published On - July 11, 2011

Richard Brooks Language BlogTags: Education, Languages, Twitter

Teaching Language With Twitter

Your mental image of a knight probably includes weapons like a sword or a lance. However, a university professor in the United States just earned a knighthood using more modern weapons, specifically Twitter, Facebook and Skype. According to WACH, a local Fox News affiliate, Dr. Lara Lomicka Anders...

Published On - June 17, 2011

Richard Brooks Language BlogTags: Language, Twitter

Twitter is Changing Language

One of the most intimidating parts of learning to use Twitter is the lingo. Confronted by words like “retweet,” “hashtag” and the “Twittersphere,” new users often find themselves wondering: “What language are these people speaking?” English, as it turns out – Twitter is just ch...

Published On - April 21, 2011

Richard Brooks Language BlogTags: Twitter

Indigenous Tweets Collects Minority Language Tweets

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 ca...

Published On - November 23, 2010

Richard Brooks Language BlogTags: Arabic, Twitter

Next Year, Twitter Will Be Available in Arabic

Popular messaging service Twitter just announced that it would be broadening its appeal by launching in Arabic next year. Find out more now!...

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