“Today we’ve made Twitter available in Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi and Tamil, and we’ve updated Twitter.com and the Android app to support these additional Indian languages”, it said in a statement.
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This comes at a time when millions of Indians are expected to buy low-priced smartphones in the next five years.
The languages can be chosen and altered as per user criteria and Android users need not change the settings if the phone language supports all the six languages in the apps.
Twitter today said it has added four more Indian languages in which the popular micro-blogging website can be used.
With the new update, Twitter will now support six Indian languages including Hindi and Bengali.
Twitter has introduced four regional languages including Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi and Tamil on its platform for Web and Android using gadgets. According a report, the user base may increase to 40 million by 2018 in India.
India is likely to have the second highest Twitter user base in the Asia-Pacific, with over 22.2 million this year, a 30 pc surge over 2014.
Twitter is also aiming to topple Facebook, which has more users in India.
Twitter probably is expecting big things from India as the number of users continue to grow in the country.
The four new languages were translated partially by Twitter’s Translation center, the company confirmed.
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