O hai. I'm in ur Twitterz, changing up ur language.
Twitter quietly added a new (and still experimental) language option Friday, one for the Cheezburger cognoscenti. Under Settings > Language, just between Korean and Malay, you'll find this curious designation: Lolcat - LOLCATZ (beta).
The operative word here is "beta." Don't expect every word of every tweet to suddenly read like it came out of a hilarious cat meme. Probably its most amusing use case for now: changing your co-worker's Twitter feeds when they're not looking. (Your amusement may vary.)
So what's changed? "Who to follow" has become "HOO 2 FOLLOW," "home" is now "HUM," "view my profile page" becomes "VIEW MAH PROFILE PUJ" and "expand" has hilariously transformed into "EXPAN. KTHX." Check it out:
"KTHXBYE!" has also been randomly inserted into the "Trends" window, although as all LOLCat fans know, that should really be spelled BAI. Presumably that will change as the hardworking engineers of Twitter refine their LOLCat language skills.
We asked Twitter for comment, and a spokesperson directed us to this tweet:
Twitter in Lolcat was a Hack Week project. We hope it increases awareness of how we translate Twitter. Check out translate.twitter.com— Twitter Int'l (@international) February 8, 2013
Of course, making Twitter fully LOLCat-compliant won't require much adjustment. There are already plenty of users who think they're composing text messages and save characters by writing "ur" in place of "your."
Check out the beta version at twitter.com/?lang=lolc. And a big furry tip of the hat to The Next Web for spotting it first.