wordpress blog stats
Connect with us

Hi, what are you looking for?

,

Too Little Too Late: Twitter To Support Hindi

Twitter has announced that it will over the coming few weeks, support Hindi and 16 other languages. Though the company hasn't elaborated on what exactly it means by 'support', it probably means that it will allow tweeting in Hindi. Well, if you've been on Twitter long enough, you'll probably already have seen tweets in Indic languages, including Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam. Tweeting in regional languages is already possible using Google's Indic transliteration bookmarklets - and it has been so since May 2009 - that's when I took the screenshot (top, right); it's just that Google hasn't done a good job of promoting the bookmarklets. Twitter should integrate a transliteration service as a default option, allowing users with India as their location to tweet in their regional language by choosing Hindi as their default language, and launch other language options via transliteration too. If you don't want to wait for Twitter to evolve, just copy the following bookmarklets to your browser toolbar, and click on the bookmarklet to begin typing: – [ع Type in Arabic] – [अ Type in Hindi] – [ಅ Type in Kannada] – [അ Type in Malayalam] – [அ Type in Tamil] –  [అ Type in Telugu] What Twitter is probably doing Based on what we've seen from Facebook's Hindi and other Indic language deployments, it probably means that a Hindi language interface is being launched for the site. This means that instead of 'What's Happening?' the question users will have to answer is - क्या हो रहा हैं? There is…

Please subscribe/login to read the full story.
Written By

Founder @ MediaNama. TED Fellow. Asia21 Fellow @ Asia Society. Co-founder SaveTheInternet.in and Internet Freedom Foundation. Advisory board @ CyberBRICS

Free Reads

News

With GPS in every car, India's toll collection is going high-tech.

News

Google is currently undergoing the necessary procedures for the leasehold land, which is presently under the ownership of the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation.

News

The pilot project for which is being launched in 19 cities this year, with a plan to launch a full-fledged rollout next year.

MediaNama’s mission is to help build a digital ecosystem which is open, fair, global and competitive.

Views

News

NPCI CEO Dilip Asbe recently said that what is not written in regulations is a no-go for fintech entities. But following this advice could...

News

Notably, Indus Appstore will allow app developers to use third-party billing systems for in-app billing without having to pay any commission to Indus, a...

News

The existing commission-based model, which companies like Uber and Ola have used for a long time and still stick to, has received criticism from...

News

Factors like Indus not charging developers any commission for in-app payments and antitrust orders issued by India's competition regulator against Google could contribute to...

News

Is open-sourcing of AI, and the use cases that come with it, a good starting point to discuss the responsibility and liability of AI?...

You May Also Like

News

Google has released a Google Travel Trends Report which states that branded budget hotel search queries grew 179% year over year (YOY) in India, in...

Advert

135 job openings in over 60 companies are listed at our free Digital and Mobile Job Board: If you’re looking for a job, or...

News

By Aroon Deep and Aditya Chunduru You’re reading it here first: Twitter has complied with government requests to censor 52 tweets that mostly criticised...

News

Rajesh Kumar* doesn’t have many enemies in life. But, Uber, for which he drives a cab everyday, is starting to look like one, he...

MediaNama is the premier source of information and analysis on Technology Policy in India. More about MediaNama, and contact information, here.

© 2008-2021 Mixed Bag Media Pvt. Ltd. Developed By PixelVJ

Subscribe to our daily newsletter
Name:*
Your email address:*
*
Please enter all required fields Click to hide
Correct invalid entries Click to hide

© 2008-2021 Mixed Bag Media Pvt. Ltd. Developed By PixelVJ