Twitter silently introduces Bing translation for tweets on the website

Twitter has silently added automatic language translation powered by Bing for tweets on the website. Now when you see a tweet in a foreign language, you will be able to grab its translation from Microsoft’s search engine.

No official announcement regarding partnering with Bing for the translations was made by the micro-blogging site, but some users are already starting to notice the “View Translation” button below tweets in foreign languages. Clicking on the button will show you the tweet translated in your preferred language right there on the page.

Works well with German!

It must be noted that the translation button appears only when you’ve opened the tweet in a new window by clicking on its timestamp. The feature will not work if you expand the tweet drawer. Reports suggest that this feature is being tested only with select markets and with a handful of languages only. Hopefully, by the time the roll-out is made official worldwide, Twitter will manage to insert the feature within timelines too.

It’s quite surprising to view Bing’s growth in the past couple of month as a lot many devices and services are ditching Google to embrace Microsoft’s search engine instead. Only last week Twitter itself announced that Bing will be used to translate foreign language tweets on the micro-blogging service’s Windows Phone app. In fact, even Apple has ditched Google Search to make Bing its voice assistant Siri’s brain.

If you haven’t been seeing Bing’s translate option on tweets, fret not. This service should soon roll out to everyone.