Twitter Launching in More Languages

How do you say “What are you doing?” in Spanish, French, Italian, or German? That’s what Twitter wants to know, as it’s asking users to volunteer for a new project to translate the site into multiple languages (it’s currently available in only English and Japanese).

The project sounds quite similar to what Facebook has done to translate its site into more than 70 languages.

Twitter’s Road To $1 Billion Part-1

 

circa 2000 – 2001, Jack Dorsey comes up with an idea These pages now hang framed in Twitter’s offices. Cofounder Jack Dorsey told the L.A. Times he drew them up around 2000 or 2001. "It was crystallizing the thought: What if you have LiveJournal, but you just make it more live? You have these people watching your journal, but it all happens in real time, and you can update it from anywhere. That document was an exploration of that concept."

May 2006, Twttr launches Before it was Twitter, Twitter was Twttr. It was also green and white before it was blue and white. Jack Dorsey explains says name about because "We wanted to capture [a] feeling: the physical sensation that you’re buzzing your friend’s pocket. It’s like buzzing all over the world." The Twttr to Twitter transition actually has to do with (now) old-fashioned telephone keypads. "In order to operate SMS you need the short code to operate with this cellular administration. So we were trying to get "twttr" — because we could just take out the vowels and get the 5-digit code. But unfortunately Teen People had that code -– it was ‘txttp’ [Text TP]. So we just decided to get an easy-to-remember short code [40404], and put the vowels back in." del.icio.us Tags: twitter,twttr,techcrunch,first tweet,twitter lunch,jack dorsey,billion