Twitter – How to Stop Bing Translations

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I noticed during the last days that Twitter adds a “translation” from Bing Translate to tweets when I expand a tweet in the web interface. This happens even on my own tweets.

screenshot of poor translation example

Is there a way to turn the automatic translations off?

The translations are so bad, they aren’t even funny anymore.

What I have tried already

  • I searched in twitter.com/settings/account for a translation checkbox.
  • Switched the interface language from German to English (I post in both languages). This switches just the languages that get translated; it doesn’t stop the translations.
  • I checked twitter.com/settings/applications for a Bing app or something similar.
  • Searched the Twitter support pages for “Bing”. No useful result.
  • Asked the German and the English Twitter accounts.
  • Sent a message to Twitter via the feedback form.

I might get a feedback from Twitter later. I will update this question then. But for now, I don’t see how to turn it off.

Best Answer

As suggested by @Zedinc, I have added the following rule to my user stylesheet:

.tweet-translation
{
    display: none !important;
}

This hides the “translations” completely.

The translations are loaded via an XHR (AJAX) request to

https://twitter.com/i/translations/show.json?dest=en&id=TWEET_ID

I blocked this URL, but for no obvious reasons my browser (Opera) still loads it. So the performance penalty is still there; I just don’t have to see it anymore.

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