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"A useful translation feature (albeit poorly executed at times) appears to have disappeared from Twitter's platform, less than two months after the company quietly rolled it out. The feature allowed people to use Microsoft\u2019s Bing translation engine to translate tweets with\u00A0the tap of a button.\r\n\r\nOne reason for the Bing translation feature's disappearance could be that it wasn't very reliable.\r\n@MartinSFP @jonrussell @nisummers in other news, Twitter for Web thinks I'm speaking norwegian pic.twitter.com/BtvL6FRnHI\r\n\r\n\u2014 Natt Garun (@nattgarun) June 24, 2014\r\nA Twitter spokesperson declined to comment when contacted by TNW. However, Twitter has been known to dabble in new features all the time, which may or may not eventually become permanent -- and typically points the media to its\u00A0blog post on experiments. It seems like Twitter experimented with the Bing translation feature and didn't like it enough eventually. What's notable about the removal of this translation feature is that it\u00A0is\u00A0a very useful tool to have, especially with a large number of tweets circulating around the world in a variety of languages, and it seems like a surprising move for Twitter to ditch it.\r\n\r\nMany people have already noticed the removal of the translation feature and some are expressing their disappointment.\r\n\r\n\r\nDid the bing translate tweet feature get taken away from twitter? Or just me?\r\n\r\n\u2014 Adam Elmakias (@elmakias) August 4, 2014\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nTwitter seems to have increased\u00A0the number of experiments in the past week or so. We\u2019ve seen evidence that Twitter is preparing to introduce shopping services,\u00A0suggesting potential new followers\u00A0inside users\u2019 timelines, and also surfacing\u00A0tweets that have been favorited\u00A0by others, in the same way that it handles retweets.\r\n\r\nGiven the importance of an inbuilt translation feature, however, we suspect Twitter may just be back with a retooled version, though it may not be powered by Bing in the future.\r\n\r\nHeadline image via Damien Meyer/AFP/Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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