One of our favorite Twitter toys, Twittervision, recently updated its iPhone app with on-the-fly translation service.
If you've never tried it out, Twittervision constantly slides over a world map displaying new tweets from around the globe. Naturally a good portion of those tweets will not be in your native language, which is why the new translation service makes Twittervision infinitely more fun.
In the iPhone version of Twittervision you can get a quick translation by simply double-tapping the tweet. The translation loads very quickly and the only real downside is that whatever translation service is being used is, well, you know how translation services work.
However, even if you may be getting a translation with the kind of bad grammar associated with internet cats, at least you can get the gist of what the person said.
The only other vaguely annoying thing is that if the person posts a link and you don't double tap fast enough you'll open the link rather than getting the translation.
As far as I can tell the web-based version of Twittervision hasn't been similarly updated. At least for now, the translation is an iPhone-only feature.
[via Webware]
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