Twitter quietly nixes Bing Translate feature

Source: GeekWire
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Twitter has quietly stopped offering users the ability to instantly translate tweets using Bing’s machine translation feature, slightly more than a year after the company started using Microsoft’s technology.

Users began noticing the feature’s absence earlier this week, though Twitter hasn’t said exactly when it stopped offering the service, or why. But one thing is clear: people who want to get tweets translated from a foreign language will have to copy and paste them into a translation service of choice, rather than clicking a button on Twitter’s website. More.

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Twitter quietly nixes Bing Translate feature
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Twitter translation team Aug 11, 2014

Twitter encourages translators to join the Twitter translation team, which makes possible a wide range of localized texts for all Twitter users. https://translate.twitter.com

 
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Does not look like a great cause for charity Aug 13, 2014

From Twitter translation Terms:
They give you a big thank you but no money. They retain the property of translators' work. They will use your work for the development their future products.


 

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