The photo-centric website announced in a blog post that it's looking for translators in French, German, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. Though Pinterest a visual-based site, the company said translators are now necessary to make the website truly global:
"At Pinterest, we've always wanted to make it easy for people all over the world to organize and share all the beautiful things they find on the web. We want to take another step towards making this vision a reality by translating Pinterest into other languages."
Though the company is starting out by looking for translators in the five languages listed above, in the future, it hopes to launch the site in several more -- Dutch, Greek, Italian, Korean, Malay, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish and Turkish are the upcoming languages in mind, according to the blog post.
Pinterest has been one of the fastest-growing social networks to ever hit the web and is now the number-three most popular social network in the U.S. It comes up right after Facebook and Twitter, both of which are already known globally and have millions of users overseas.
However, although this is the first word from the company regarding translators, that's not to say Pinterest hasn't already gone abroad. Travel is one of the top 10 categories on Pinterest, and Pinterest-like websites have already popped up in China.
You can find more information about translating for Pinterest here.
Do you think Pinterest has what it takes to go pinternational? Will translating Pinterest into different languages change how people are already using it? Sound off in the comments.