Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi and Tamil

With this new update, now the micro-blogging site supports six Indian languages along with Hindi and Bengali. “By supporting Twitter in these languages, we are making our platform for live, public conversations more accessible to Indians all over the country”, the blog post further adds.

Twitter is probably taking cues from Facebook and Google, as both tech giants are offering their websites and services in more than 10 different Indian languages.

“Today we’ve made Twitter available in Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi and Tamil, and we’ve updated Twitter.com and the Android app to support these additional Indian languages”, it said in a statement.

The four new languages were translated partially by Twitter’s Translation center, the company confirmed. These included Devanagari script based languages like Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Nepali, as well as Bengali, Assamese, Punjabi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada.

Globally, Twitter has over 300 million users, but lags behind Facebook, which is expected to have 136 million users in 2015 and set to climb up to 211 million by 2018.

Popular social media site Twitter said it has added four more languages for India in which the Twitter can be used.

According to an email from Twitter spokesperson, the company is hoping to offer “hyperlocal flavor” for users and the ability to Tweet in their choice of local language, reports LiveMint. According a report, the user base may increase to 40 million by 2018 in India.