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"Nearly three-quarters of Twitter's users are based outside of the US. The service is available in 33 different languages, but tweets are probably sent in countless more,\u00A0such is the global nature of the internet. \u00A0If you're at a business or are someone who needs to connect with people outside of your linguistic ability, Fliplingo wants to help.\r\n\r\nThe service is essentially a middle-man between you and your Twitter account. You tell it what you want to say\u00A0and the language that you want to use, and it will publish the tweets to your account for you.\r\n\r\nIt\u00A0has free and paid options and works in two different ways: you can choose to translate specific tweets into any of 30 different languages, or plug in a Twitter account to translate all tweets sent.\r\n\r\nVisiting\u00A0Fliplingo.com\u00A0presents the two options.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSelecting the automatic option for entire account translations -- to the right, in orange, above -- brings you to the screen to \u00A0create 'Flips.' These are Twitter accounts plugged into Fliplingo for full translation services -- that means all tweets are\u00A0first translated and then published by Fliplingo to your Twitter account.\r\n\r\nTo get started, simply authorize your Twitter account, select the language that you would like your tweets to be translated into and published in, and choose your local timezone. (The timezone part is a little unclear, but essentially tweets are held back for business hours in specific regions -- though Fliplingo says it will make this clearer, perhaps by offering specific time requests for tweets.)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOnce your Flip is set up, you are ready to start tweeting. Messages that you enter in the Fliplingo site are sent off to its smarty-pants linguists, who &amp;quot;hand translate&amp;quot; the tweets -- the company is using Tokyo-based translation service Gengo to handle the details, not just Google Translate.\r\n\r\nWhen a tweet is translated, it will automatically be sent out from your account during the time zone that you specified. You can turn Flips off, or pause them if you want control of your account back.\r\n\r\nThe other option is more ad hoc.\u00A0You can\u00A0out-source tweets to translators (again via Gengo), after which they are published to your account via Flipgram, or simply have them machine translated.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAs it happens, I picked the most straightforward phrase to test.\r\nHalo Indonesia\r\n\r\n\u2014 Jon Russell (@jonrussell) June 24, 2014\r\nBut I quickly followed it up with a more complicated tweet. (I'll let you work out the meaning for yourself.)\r\n\r\n\r\nHei, saya tidak tahu saya bisa berbicara Bahasa Indonesia - bakat tersembunyi ;) \u2014 Jon Russell (@jonrussell) June 24, 2014\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAnd, a bit of Simplified Chinese -- &amp;quot;my incredible language skills will soon be revealed&amp;quot;:\r\n\u6211\u4E0D\u53EF\u601D\u8BAE\u7684\u8BED\u8A00\u624D\u80FD\u4E0D\u4E45\u5C31\u4F1A\u5C55\u73B0\u51FA\u6765\u3002^_^\r\n\r\n\u2014 Jon Russell (@jonrussell) June 25, 2014\r\n\r\n\r\nIn all three\u00A0cases, the tweets were published within an impressive ten minutes of my translation request. As well as writing new tweets, you can look up recent @mentions on the service and reply to ongoing conversations\u00A0via translations if you like.\r\n\r\nAs for accuracy: the first two were easily\u00A0understood by my Indonesian Twitter followers, some of whom thought I was in the country or am learning Bahasa. People seemed to understand\u00A0the Chinese tweet, though\u00A0TNW's resident Chinese speaker\u00A0was less impressed: she got the gist but didn't feel that the translation was extremely accurate.\r\n\r\nFliplingo is offering 30 free &amp;quot;human translated&amp;quot; words for free on trial, while machine translations are free. Once the\u00A0allocation is up, you can pay $100 for 1,429 words, $50 for 714 words or $20 for 286 words -- around $0.07 per word -- while there is an auto-recharge option.\r\n\r\nIf you don't have native speakers on your team but want to connect with non-English speakers using Twitter (with no emphasis on business-level diction) then Fliplingo may be worth your time. The service has just come out of a four-month beta,\u00A0and is now available to all.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Fliplingo\r\n\r\nImage via yui / Shutterstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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