{"id":1431,"date":"2012-03-15T17:16:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T17:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2012-03-13T17:17:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T17:17:57","slug":"twitter-adds-right-to-left-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/15\/twitter-adds-right-to-left-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter adds right-to-left languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter is now available in languages written right-to-left, including Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu.<\/p>\n<p>Work began earlier this year via their Translation Center, which crowd-sources translations to make Twitter available to people around the world. Almost half a million people contribute to the Center, and have so far made 28 languages available. <\/p>\n<p>Around 13,000 volunteers worked on the project to make right-to-left language available. Twitter had to create new tools to ensure Tweets, retweets and hashtags work properly for users who may send tweets with both right-to-left and left-to-right content. <\/p>\n<p>To suggest a new language for Twitter, you can file a <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.twttr.com\/lang_request \">language request<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter is now available in languages written right-to-left, including Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu. Work began earlier this year via their Translation Center, which crowd-sources translations to make Twitter available to people around the world. Almost half a million people contribute to the Center, and have so far made 28 languages available. Around 13,000 volunteers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,27,16,200],"tags":[97,1113,98,25,1112,944],"class_list":["post-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-hints-and-tips","category-technology","category-translation","tag-arabic","tag-farsi","tag-hebrew","tag-languages","tag-twitter-languages","tag-urdu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1433,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions\/1433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}