Twitter has announced the launch of the service in five new languages: simplified and traditional Chinese, Hindi, Tagalog and Malay.

This brings the total number of languages Twitter is available in to 17.

Like many other online services, Twitter is mostly relying on volunteers for translation. To join in, head on over to Twitter's translation center.

Twitter also announced that it would soon add six new languages to the Translation Center: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Polish and Hungarian.