Twitter is now available in Spanish!

(Maybe that means that more Spanish speaking tweeterers will begin tweeting in Spanish, too… but that’s another matter).

You have to go into your account settings to change from English to Spanish. I went ahead and did so… and I got something like this:

Basically Spanglish. Of course these are Twitter’s first steps in other languages, so Spanglish is to be expected at first.

Honestly, I don’t think I’ll stick to Twitter in Spanish much longer. In general, I am so used to English that no matter how good a translation is, it always feels unnatural and somewhat forced to me (especially MS office and Facebook translations). In my opinion, Spanish is too wordy as a language to translate well into one words commands. English lends itself much better for those purposes.

I must say though I did like cnet’s translation of the fail whale as “la ballena del fracaso”. It sounds so much more dramatic in Spanish, but it has such a nice ring to it in English. I think I’ll stick to the Spanish version until a “ballena del fracaso” appears on my screen, I’m sure I’ll enjoy that just as much as I enjoy the fail whale.

Tags: Ballena del fracaso, English, Fail Whale, Spanish, Twitter, Twitter in Spanish