Twitter in Regional Languages Now | Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi and Tamil

“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”, he blogged.

Users will be allowed to change to their desired language from Settings, where they can find the drop down menu on the profile.

“This update means we now support six Indian languages, since Hindi and Bengali have been available for more than a year”. According to the research and analyst firm Emarketer Inc estimations the user base may increase to 40 million by 2018 year. These included Devanagari script based languages like Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Nepali, as well as Bengali, Assamese, Punjabi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada.

Twitter today said it has added four more Indian languages in which the popular micro-blogging website can be used.

According to a Twitter blog post, the translations were partially carried out by the Twitter user community, via Twitter’s Translation Center, and if your language isn’t supported, you can also join Twitter’s translator community to contribute to ongoing efforts. At present twitter have over 300 million users.

Twitter India’s head of communications Rohan Vyavaharkar said “At Twitter, our constant focus is to enhance user experience so that more and more people can use the platform and reap benefits from it”.

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