Twitter Is Testing Automatic Tweet Translation

Rather than having to tap a translation button, Twitter is experimenting with automatically translating tweets into your language of choice.

By Matthew Humphries | edited by Frances Dodds | Aug 11, 2020
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Twitter has well over 300 million users around the world, and they don’t all speak the same language. Soon you may not even notice as the micro-blogging platform is experimenting with automatically translating tweets in your stream.

Translation is already a feature of Twitter, but it’s not automatic. Tweets are presented in the language they were written in, but a “Translate Tweet” option appears below the text if you are logged in to your account. Tapping it carries out the translation immediately. However, as , Twitter is testing automatic translation among a small group of users spread across iOS and Android in Brazil.

Matthew Humphries • Senior Editor

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