Tag: social media
Indian Social Media Platform Promotes Multilingualism
Koo, an Indian microblogging social media platform that was launched in late 2019, has announced that it is currently looking to expand the social...
TikTok Users Revive Secret African American Language
In the 18th Century, African American enslaved people developed a secret language that was used to encode private communication and also teach each other...
TikTok penalized for failing to properly localize terms and conditions in...
TikTok, the short-form video app that has seen a dramatic, if not entirely uncontroversial, rise in popularity since its release in 2016, was hit...
White translator relinquishes assignment over race
The Dutch translator chosen to adapt the poem Amanda Gorman wrote for Joe Biden's presidential inauguration has turned down the assignment after some complained...
Should Translators Be on Clubhouse?
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, translation is in the house – the Clubhouse, that is. Billed as the cool new social media app...
Global audiences, social media and content localization
Content localization is a relatively new realm that is rapidly gaining momentum. Its existence is necessary in the modern-day world of marketing if a business wants to reach wider audiences.
