Twitter adds support for right to left languages

The Twitter Translation Center, which is Twitter's crowd source means of making the microblog available in various languages, has added support for languages read and written in right to left. According to a blog post by Twitter, the first four languages that will be worked with are Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu. Twitter is already available in 22 languages, however, all of them are read and written in left to right format. The languages are Traditional Chinese, Indonesian, Portuguese, Italian, Filipino, Finnish, Norwegian, Polish, Turkish, Danish, Malay, English, French, Korean, Swedish, Spanish, Simplified  Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, German, Russian and Dutch. Support for these languages has been accomplished by the Twitter Translation Center which employs 4,25,000 volunteers all over the world. Click here for full story