Earlier this month, Twitter rolled out a Spanish language version of its service. This was the first language to gain native support beyond English and Japanese. Today, it’s announcing French support as well.
As the service announced in October, it needed help from the community in order to roll out to the so-called “FIGS” languages. That is French, Italian, German, and Spanish. Just over a month later, 2 of those are already complete.
Just as they did the last time, Twitter wrote the entire post in the new lanuage, so we’ll give a rough translation here:
With the addition of the Spanish version of the site last month, many people have joined the conversations on Twitter. More and more people tweet outside the United States and we are now able to accommodate users of nearly 30 Francophone countries. It is now possible to change the language settings in French with the participation of translators who have helped turn Twitter into a platform for truly global communication.
The French twitteurs golds can already track people and companies they are familiar. Whether you attended @lepicerie or @lopera for your gastronomic outings, you read @lemondefr way to work or you listen @theteenagers on the way home or you’re a fan of @CanadiensMTL, there is a wealth of information useful to discover at any time.
To see Twitter in French, just check your settings and select “French” from the menu.
One last thing: some of the Twitter team will be in Paris on 9 and 10 November for LeWeb conference, presented by @loic. The specialists of our platform, Ryan Sarver (@rsarver) and Marcel Molina (@noradio) will present, among other things, a session developers. If you are in the region these days, please join us!
As they note, they got this done just in time for LeWeb, where member of Twitter’s team will be talking about their platform. Quite a few members of TechCrunch will be participating in the event as well. And no doubt even more people will be tweeting about it now.
UPDATE: In fact TechCrunch Europe is helping to organise the Startup Competition at Le Web.
What is the French word for tweet?
pépier
gazouiller
Yep it’s “gazouiller” > http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-french/twitter
Would love to see gazouiller.com
But in facts, we didn’t translate it and kept the originally word
Hopefully.
…ça va tweeter grave maintenant..!
Finalement!
le twitteur
“just in time for le web”? it’s three weeks away. that’s a lifetime to twitter — literally, a tweet’s lifetime.
Leweb is in december not november
Wonder what I should do to get attention to my site…
Pépier about it…
Twitter in (kinda) French IHMO. And I agree with “pépier” being better than “gazouiller”.
Je suis perdu! on dit IHMO ou IMHO!!
Okay, I don’t speak french and don’t know much about internationalizating the apps, but how difficult it can be to translate Twitter into any language?
This is pretty hard considering english is really easy if you compare other languages grammar and syntax (some languages for example have different words if there is none, one or several of an item)
Who gives a f to a $2000 event full of VIPs ? Go to work.
I’m so used to the English version and would continue to use it even if twitter provides a translation for my country
I just wish there would be any rough time line for the other languages.
( We are currently editing the second edition of the german twitter book and it is my fear that as soon as we do submit it for print, they turn on the german version.
But with their policy of not answering even basic emails from their press department it is nice that at least the french twitter scene has a heads up on this.
Thank you Twitter!
Glam One launched France’s First Social & Integrated Vertical Media Platform about 3 weeks ago.
Nice writeup in PaidContent – http://paidcontent.org/article/419-glam-who-glam-media-faces-french-competition-from-glam-one/
1) – Users can post statuses and automatically publish their profiles to Twitter from within the Glam platform and retweet others using Tweetmeme
2) – Users can import their Twitter feeds
3) – Users can connect and invite friends using their existing Twitter accounts (using Gigya Socialize’s Oauth integration), FaceBook, Google, Yahoo!, MySpace or AOL
Check it out; we’ve got 5 verticals live, including http://www.glamfree.com or http://www.glamparis.com. With more french real time search news for LeWeb, maybe …
anaud
I hope that soon the fact that a service used globally is available in many languages will NOT be news… It should be a commodity.
this is like in 1997, when the ability to create a username and login into a website was news.
I know, I am being too hopeful…
+1 with blogalizeme