Monitoring user/customer sentiment and feedback is one of the big benefits of Twitter (and other Social Networks, but Twitter does it better). As HootSuite’s user base grew, people were talking about it in other languages. To scratch my own itch, I created a GreaseMonkey script to translate tweets from any language to English, right in the HootSuite dashboard.
Just click on a tweet’s text in any column to translate it. The text will show up in a ligher grey when the translation is finished. All links in the tweet will continue to work properly after translation.
The script is simple and thrown together hastily, and uses Google Translate to do the translation, so don’t expect perfect translations (often you have to put a bit of thought into deciphering the translated text, and sometimes they just come out unintentionally humorous).
Interested in listening to your entire audience? Grab the HootSuite translator script or view the script source. If English isn’t your primary language, you can also have tweets in HootSuite translated to Japanese [HS translator Japanese] and German [HS translator German] as well!
To install this script in your HootSuite Fluid app (Mac), visit the script page and save the script to your desktop, then drag it into your HootSuite Fluid app.
For more goodies to empower your social media reach, visit http://hootsuite.com/apps!
[...] HOW TO: HootSuite on your Mac dock with fluid.app Thursday, July 30th, 2009 Update! (Jan 6, 2010) I have made a HootSuite Fluid app that you can download from http://hootsuite.com/apps. It’s the exact same one outlined in this blog post, but saves you the work! Also check out my Translator script to translate tweets in HootSuite. [...]
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Will definitely come back again snapping you feeds also, Thank you.
Comment by Oren Baetz — March 10, 2010 @ 4:11 am