Twittervision for the iPhone put out a great update over the weekend that does something even the desktop version cannot do. You can now double tap any foreign tweet and it will convert it into your native language.
Why is this important? If you ever used the previous iteration of the application you’ll know that it simply jumps around the globe showing you random Twitter status updates. Many cannot be read unless you’re fluent in that language, making it cute but fairly useless for most folks.
The translation takes about 10 seconds to work its magic, and you’ve got to be quick to touch considering the application only hovers on a tweet for half that. You can also single tap any tweet with a link and it will open it up in a mini-browser that includes a small plus button to bookmark the page for later reading.
Twittervision for the iPhone lets you translate foreign tweets on-the-fly. Just double tap something you don't understand and it will do its best.
(Credit: CNET Networks)
Original post by Josh Lowensohn and software by Elliott Back
