Yesterday I received an email from #publichealthninja Camilo Erazo with a social media toolkit for a health and poverty conference taking place in Chile.  Not yet speaking Spanish (I'm working on it), I couldn't follow the program.  The hashtag #saludypobreza was in Spanish as well.

Chrome usually picks up on foreign language content and offers to translate it.  The results from the twitter search for #saludypobreza however were interpreted as English, since I was coming from the US search page.

I found two (now three) solutions using Chrome.

Solution 1:

Install the Google Translate extension.

Go to the Twitter search page for  saludypobreza and press the translate button.

Solution 2:

Or add a translate button for a specific language.

Go to the Twitter search page for saludypobreza and press the translate button.

Solution 3:

As I was writing this I thought of another solution. Go directly to the Twitter search page adding the Spanish language argument.

Thanks to #publichealthninja Cisco Grajales for asking if I had blogged this.  Great idea.  Done.

Do you know of other solutions or apps that translate Twitter feeds for following hashtags or events?