Comments on: Using crowd-sourced translations, Facebook launches in Spanish

By: Seven Languages Grow, Three Hold Steady on Facebook for June 2010

Seven Languages Grow, Three Hold Steady on Facebook for June 2010 — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:47:50 +0000

[...] user base has become increasingly international since the site launched its first non-English version in February of 2008. Back when Facebook was still the English-only [...]

By: Shiuli

Shiuli — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:30:58 +0000

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By: John Fan

John Fan — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:09:34 +0000

I wonder if “China” includes Hong Kong. Hong Kong seems to have a lot of active Facebook users based on my experience.

By: Inside Facebook » Facebook ist jetzt auf Deutsch vorhanden

Inside Facebook » Facebook ist jetzt auf Deutsch vorhanden — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:48:06 +0000

[...] In its continuing efforts to build an international audience, Facebook today announced the release of the site translated into German. Starting today, any person who goes to Facebook.com from a German-speaking country will automatically see the site in German. With only 480,000 users, Germany is the 13th largest country on Facebook, according to stats gathered last month. [...]

By: Parky

Parky — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:15:45 +0000

I am wondering why Hong Kong is not listed, from what my rep told me, it has more active members than India.

By: Facebook en Español - Blog de Dr. Max Glaser

Facebook en Español - Blog de Dr. Max Glaser — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:15:33 +0000

[...] Inside Facebook, 1500 usuarios han traducido mas de 40.000 oraciones al español en menos de 4 semanas. Casí cada texto ha sido traducido y [...]

By: Trey Philips

Trey Philips — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:48:06 +0000

Now they’ve got to allow the developers to catch up, with translated application titles, and language data in the API so we can translate our applications appropriately.

By: Juan Pablo Sueiro

Juan Pablo Sueiro — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:42:11 +0000

Facebook took a long time to finish this important task to open their platform massively to spanish-speaking users.
In the meanwhile, diffent social networks have been working hard to get the attention of those users and communities.
An example of it its Sonico.com (http://www.sonico.com) that in less than 6 month from the first release have registered more than 7 million hispanic members and gaining an average of 100k new daily to become the biggest and fastest spanish social network.

But the question here is beyond this topic.
Is this Facebook´s move enough to get new hispanic users?.
I dont think so.
Obviously, this will help and probably a new wave of members will join, but to get the “mass network effect” they will need to work hard and not only relay to “users workforce” to adapt their strategy for this new market. Also, some other core releases and along term commitment is needed in order to adapt the site to the idiosyncrasy of latam and spanish speaking users.

By: Facebook starts rolling out in Spanish

Facebook starts rolling out in Spanish — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:08:28 +0000

[...] found the following quote and a pretty useful country by country breakdown over at the InsideFacebook blog [...]