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Twitter gets lost in translation

As Spanish is my mother tongue, I always write in Spanish here, but today deserves the right to change the rule. Why? Twitter has launched its Spanish version. Ok, what’s wrong with that?

A while ago Twitter announced they were going to localise their site into different languages using “ crowdsourcing “. For those who are not familiar with the concept, crowdsourcing is, according to Wikipedia “the act of taking tasks traditionally performed by an employee or contractor , and outsourcing it to a group ( crowd ) of people or community in the form of an open call.”

As it happened with Facebook and Linkedin, ...

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