The decision by Twitter to translate its website into Spanish could improve traffic figures, according to an expert.
An industry insider has suggested that by translating its site into another language, Twitter may encourage increased usage of the social media service.
Tim Gibbon, co-founder and editor of the Social Media Portal, commented that Spanish-speakers were already using the site before it was translated into their language.
He noted that there is a huge mixture of languages being spoken across global communication sites such as Twitter, just like in internet chatrooms and forums.
However, the decision to make Spanish the third language after English and Japanese for the social networking service to be available in was a logical choice because of the number of people that speak it, continued Mr Gibbon.
"It is likely to increase usage of the site due to audiences that are not mainly English speakers as different types and levels of conversation may occur," he added.
Last week, Twitter announced that it had translated the website into Spanish using a group of volunteers.
11/11/2009
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