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…
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