Robert Frost said that poetry is what gets lost in translation. Well we think a lot more is lost with Twitter introducing Hindi and Urdu translations for tweets. We do like it when Internet services do support translations in Indic languages, but we have to ask again why are the translations so bad. The translations are done by Bing's translator, but Twitter themselves admit that the translations by Microsoft are low quality and "often fall below the accuracy and fluency of translations provided by a professional translator" (their words, not ours). We're introducing Tweet translation with @Bing Translator so you now can read Tweets in multiple languages: https://t.co/qSPtrTcGjp — Twitter India (@TwitterIndia) January 23, 2015 Anyway, Twitter now provides translations in 40 languages through Bing Translator. Twitter added support for Hindi earlier in 2011 when it hit 100 million…
