Twitrans is a free service that was launched by OneHourTranslation.com. You can send tweets or personal message in any language other than English. So, if you like to send personal message to a Hindi speaking person in India, then send a Twitter short message to @twitrans followed by the translation requested(English(en) to Hindi(hi) is en2hi).
You have to wait for few minutes because Twitrans route the message to their translators through OneHourTranslation.com. You’ll receive a response from them as “Human translation started. You’ll receive the translation here in a few minutes. Thank you!”. That means the translation is available at user’s Twitter home page and at recipient’s account.
Messages can be translated to/from Arabic-ar, Chinese-zh, Dutch-nl, English-en, French-fr, German-de, Greek-el, Hebrew-he, Hindi-hi, Italian-it, Japanese-jp, Portuguese-pt, Russian-ru, Spanish-es. The translation is carried out to humans using the OneHourTranslation platform and results are available in a few minutes.
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