Twitter plans French, German, Italian and Spanish sites

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Twitter, the fast-growing micro-blogging service, is seeking volunteer French, German, Italian, and Spanish translators to render its website into other languages.

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Twitter’s website, Twitter.com, is currently only offered in English or Japanese.

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Biz Stone, a co-founder of the San Francisco-based startup, said in a blog post that Twitter was planning versions of its website in other languages, starting with French, German, Italian and Spanish.

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He invited a “small group” of Twitter users to become “volunteer translators” to suggest translations for the Twitter website.

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“We will distribute the translations to Twitter platform developers making it easier for them to offer multiple language support as well,” he said.

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“We’re very excited that more people will be able to use Twitter in their native language!” he added.

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Twitter, which allows users to pepper one another with 140-character-or-less messages known as “tweets,” has grown rapidly in popularity since it was launched in August 2006 and claims to have topped 50 million users.

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