A misinformed Twitter message has led a lot of users astray, and gotten the hopes up of some Spanish-speaking micro-bloggers. A tip from FayerWayer let us know about a blog entry hat was posted by a newspaper in el Editors Day on Wednesday, with a subsequent invite from Terra Networks on its Twitter page being discovered soon after, indicating that a deal between Twitter and Terra Networks would soon bring about a localized Twitter for Spanish-speaking countries.
Terra Networks is the Telefonica subsidiary of Spain's Internet service provider, so a deal between Terra and Twitter would be a pretty big deal. Turns out, the hopes for a Spanish Twitter turned out to be fake, according to a letter sent to a Spanish blogger in response to inquiries on the partnership. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone wrote the following:
Hi José,
Twitter does not have a partnership with Terra Networks or Telefonica. Today
is the first we are hearing about this news regarding Twitter and Terra.
Thanks,
Biz Stone, Co-founder
Twitter, Inc.
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Is this another tactic to avoid early coverage of an actual partnership? Probably not. There's not much else to support the possibility of there actually being a deal between Terra and Twitter. That doesn't mean that Twitter isn't planning on launching localized versions of its micro-blogging service across the world, though there's been little dispersed on this topic as well.