Social media leader is now six steps closer to reaching every person on the planet.

Back in March, we reported that Twitter had completed work to support right-to-left languages for the first time with the addition of Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu.

Now, by popular demand, Twitter’s at it again by opening its translation center for six new languages: Catalan, Afrikaans, Ukrainian, Greek, Czech and Basque. These six languages were the most requested, and Twitter is currently crowdsourcing translators for all of them.

From Twitter:

Since we launched our Translation Center last year, we’ve received thousands of language requests. Currently the most requested languages are Catalan, Afrikaans, Ukrainian, Greek, Czech and Basque. Today we’re excited to announce that we’re opening up the Twitter Translation Center for those six languages.

Today, Twitter is available in 28 languages, thanks in large part to our community of nearly half a million translators around the world. We’re grateful for the work you’ve done thus far, and for the enthusiasm we’ve seen about continuing to add new languages. While this batch represents the most requested languages, we know there are still many more to tackle. To request your language, please submit your interest to translate at http://translate.twttr.com/lang_request.

Alex Dupont

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• Twitter Translation Center
  Twitter?s Translation Center, originally released in February 2011, has just opened up for six new languages.