Since the begining of this year, when we started with twitter micro-blogging as a way to publish information related to Conductiva, we found a critical problem: our daily relationship with customers and collaborators is carried out in multiple languages. Some of them speak english, others spanish and others catalan.
Then, in which way could we make twitter micro-blogging (initially designed to work under one single language) compatible for multi-language support so it can be useful to all of them simultaneously without displaying messages in the wrong language?
Arrived to this point, here's what we did:
1. We created three twitter account with the following aliases: conductiva, conductiva_es, conductiva_cat, for english, spanish and catalan.
2. All communications we do from twitter (not so many as this time) are inserted simultaneously in the three accounts using the proper language for each.
3. Depending on the language chosen by the person visiting our website, www.conductiva.com, the links to twitter are redirected to the account under the specific language.
We thought this could be an easy way to keep all our clients and collaborators connected to twitter while displaying only those messages written in the language they selected.
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