We are fast approaching a major milestone in Retweet Buttons and within weeks we will have passed being live on over 200,000 websites. In conjunction we have recently passed serving 500 million button impressions daily. To assist our continued growth we are today releasing a major update to the button to include international language support.
Two parts of the button have translation features,
Firstly the button itself and the pop-up you get when you click to do the retweet are now translated into 7 languages English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Portuguese. We will then be putting up an area to crowd source the translations to other languages.
Secondly we have integrated Google Translate to automatically translate any stories you retweet into your own language. This automatically detects if translation is required and prompts you when it has made the change, it is a simple one-click to revert the translation if that is not what you desire.
The new language support is on top of an impressive feature set,
- The best user and publisher retweets experience
- URL Shortener Support (including BIT.LY Pro)
- Mobile Phone Support (iPhone, Android)
- Image Button – that allows the embedding into RSS + Emails
- Spaces – allows you to control how many white spaces you leave at the end of the tweet
- Hash Tag support
If you are website owner you can read all the technical details of the changes on our help page, if you want to install the button from scratch visit our installation page.
UPDATE
As some of you who already use our button with the language translation are already aware we initially released our translations as an opt out, due to the popular demand for an opt in process instead we have now swapped that around so you can now opt into your tweets being translated into your local language.
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I want to a language option for retweet button.
Because Japanese style is not so cool..
one part is great with is translating the button but what is not good is translating tweets by default my full argument here:
http://arabcrunch.com/2010/06/retweet-button-now-multi-lingual-and-translates-retweeted-stories-in-many-languages-including-arabic.html
I totally agree. Did you find a way to disable Google auto-translate?
Their is a way to revert the translation, by clicking on the arrow you can turn it back to the original language. We are aware that this is unclear and working on a improved UI.
It’s not enough to improve the UI. It must be possible to insert the button in the page without this feature. More… This feature should be disabled by default. Otherwise a lot of existing buttons are messed up.
For example, this site http://www.miscarea-aradeana.ro is a Romanian site with buttons placed before this “feature”. When somebody perform e retweet, it’s translated in English and is not the desired behavior. Plus is very badly translated. Google Romanian>English translation is really garbage…
I saw some improvements on UI… But it’s not enough. Hey Tweetmeme! Please disable this feature an provide some option to enabling for those interested.
At least… provide us some API option to disable it. Please!!!
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How do I remove Google Translation from the popup? API option?
This is awesome guys. Something I always thought should’ve been on the roadmap; bravo! Now when are alternative-language rivers going to be available?
You should have made automated translation an opt-in feature! I hope you get to learn something from this colossal mistake.
Nice work, guys! But we really need Russian version.
I actively use you button on several projects and know exactly that on Russian sites you are very welcome. I can assist you with Russian translation.
That’s good, but I would like to be able to disable the automatic translation in the options of a button, because the commonly used two languages and one of them necessarily translate, that often obstruct.
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I’m gonna stop using this button untill you make an opt-in for this automatic option. My target group is only in my native language, and second, you’ve translated name of my company with “Poor” and that’s a suffix to every page title of my company web site!!!!!
massive fail.
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