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Use Twitrans To Twitter In A Variety Of Languages

A new free service called Twitrans launched today that allows Twitter users to quickly translate any short message to a variety of languages. The translation is farmed out to humans using the OneHourTranslation platform and results are promised in a few minutes.

Here’s how it works. You send a Twitter message to @twitrans followed by the translation requested (English to Chinese would be en2zh). A test message I sent: "@twitrans en2zh Testing out twitrans, a new Twitter translation service."

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    Sat, Jul 4th, 2009 3:19 PM EDT· Reply · View Tweet
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