Translating Twitter - Meedan enters Knight News Challenge

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Tom Trewinnard

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Mar 8, 2012, 6:57:04 AM3/8/12

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Hey Meedan Translations,

It's been a real pleasure in recent weeks to read the fascinating discussions you guys have been having about translation and different terms and phrases - it's really wonderful to see such great people in conversation.

I'm writing to let you know of another great discussion we think is waiting to happen: Meedan has just submitted our concept for TranslateDesk to Knight News Challenge. http://newschallenge.tumblr.com/post/18911622612/translatedesk-translation-workbench-for-twitter

As some of you know, Meedan has been engaged in some great and exciting Twitter translation pilots before, from Hootsuite and news.meedan.net to Curated.By, and the people on this list have been an important part of it - you are the guys with the experience of translating tweets and pushing them out to hashtags. What we would love is for our entry to Knight to be a place where we (us and you) can share those experiences, and - in a public way - talk about the challenges and opportunities of translating Twitter.

Pleas check out the post (http://newschallenge.tumblr.com/post/18911622612/translatedesk-translation-workbench-for-twitter) and share your thoughts!