This is quite commendable and kudos to the team behind this. Just like
Wikipedia and Google, Twitter is set to add Yoruba language to its list
of translations.
The campaign to get support for the language on the
social networking site commenced on March 1st, 2012 with about 24,000
tweets posted in Yoruba language and another 38,000 posted on 'tweet
Yoruba day' in 2013. Twitter noticed the campaign and promised that
support would come in a few months.
Meanwhile, Kola Tubosun (@baroka
on Twitter), a Yoruba scholar and linguist and other brains behind this
project are working on translating Twitter's standard glossary of terms
to Yoruba and once this is done, Yoruba will be the only other African
language asides Afrikaans (currently in beta) to be supported by the
network.
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