I wish I could speak and write in more than one language. English is all I know, and if I knew even just one more language, I would be able to communicate with so many more people. As the world becomes even more interconnected, the people who can speak multiple languages are the ones who will have a distinct advantage. When you communicate in public online, you never really know who could be reading what you’re writing. It’s almost a guarantee that people who speak languages other than the one you write in will read your content. Sometimes you may even want to communicate with them directly. A service called twitrans makes communicating in multiple languages through Twitter a lot more accessible.

How does it work? You simply send twitrans a message through Twitter in a format that tells them how to translate the message and then their team of human translators does the translation for you as soon as possible and sends the translated message back to you. This service is available to promote the paid services of OneHourTranslation, however, for messages this short, you could probably mostly get by with using an online translator like Babel Fish.