Twitter thanks Barça for its implication in the Catalan translation of the social network

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"We are very pleased with the support of such entities as FC
Barcelona", said the social network in a message to express its
satisfaction with the incorporation of the Catalan language in its platform

Twitter agraeix al Barça el seu suport a la campanya #twitterencatalà

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FC Barcelona is the number one sports club in the world with more than 9 million followers of its official accounts at @fcbarcelona_cat, @fcbarcelona_es and @fcbarcelona. The Catalan language account @fcbarcelona_cat has more than 1.7 million followers

This Thursday the world's leading microblogging site, Twitter, has announced that the presence of Catalan in its translation centre is the first step towards making it one of its official user languages. The support of FC Barcelona and its president Sandro Rosell for the #twitterencatalà campaign, launched by journalist Albert Cuesta, have played a major role in this, as Twitter itself has declared through different channels. "We are very happy with the good news this week and for the support of entities like FC Barcelona" said Twitter on its international account at @international.

The Twitter platform now features 28 languages, and its new additions in the not too distant future will include Catalan, Afrikaans, Greek, Czech and Basque. "We are very grateful to our community of almost half a million translators around the world and for the enthusiasm of entities such as FC Barcelona" adds Twitter in its Translations Center blog.

The Twitter announcement is the first step towards making Catalan a standard language on the network, something for which thousands of people and entities have been campaigning for around the country. Rosell himself recognised the people at #twitterencatalà for their perseverance via his own Twitter account, and also thanked Twitter for heeding the demands of its Catalan users.