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As Egypt Erupts in Political Tumult, Twitter Translates High-Profile Tweeters

Tom O’Halloran

By Mike Isaac

In an ongoing effort to make Twitter more readily accessible to the world, Twitter continued its experiments with tweet translation on Wednesday, giving people the ability to see some high-profile Egyptian Twitter users’ tweets translated.