Social Networking sites has made this world a small place to live in. Sitting here in India you can find out what a person in France is doing, just by following him on Twitter or Facebook. Social Networking sites has undoubtedly removed international boundaries.
But there are times when language becomes a barrier. What if a person you follow, tweets in a language that you don’t know? If you are thinking about Google Translate which pops up every time you open a site in a foreign language, well that does not work with sites like Twitter or Facebook. See the example below:
Installing Social Translate
Social Translate is an extension for Google’s Chrome that translates updates on social networking sites into your native language on the fly using Google Translate. At present it supports Twitter, Facebook, Orkut, Flickr and Amplify. From my experience it works best for Twitter at present.
Install social translate from the extension gallery.
Once you install it, go to Extensions (or in Chrome address bar type chrome://extensions/) and click “Options” for Social Translate.
Social Translate in Action
Once you have Social Translate installed, you’ll see the Social Translate icon in the address bar for the pages where the extension can work. It translates the status message automatically. You’ll see the icon next to the tweet that has been translated, and if you click on it, it’ll show the original message below the translated tweet.
Do you know of any other extension that can be used for translating messages on Social Networking site? Do share it with us.
4 Comments
Hey this is awesome plugin.. Yes i have seen people tweeting in hindi, Marathi, gujarati and so many languages but i always used to avoid the pain in translating them and reading.. but this tool should do all for me.
Does this work for mobiles as well?
Thanks Sheetal.. I am using this tool and must say it works nice, though as I mentioned, there are times when the translation is not that good.
If you install it, it’ll also work with Facebook.
As far as I know, it doesn’t work for mobiles.
I agree with Sheetal, this is amazing. Thanks for sharing this as I also follow and have followers that write in different languages. This helps a lot!
I am glad it was helpful for you. 🙂