In an announcement today, a Twitter product manager stated that Twitter's trending topics, a what's what of popular and talked-about keywords, will be gaining a more local flavor for 13 new countries and 6 new cities starting today.
Twitter's been paying a lot of attention to trend-related features lately. Trends became locally oriented for some users in major markets at the beginning of 2010. The company worked on its trending topics algorithm in the spring; with trends becoming ever more relevant and interesting, Twitter was ready to roll out trend-based ads in the summer.
In other globally focused Twitter news, the company will now be displaying tweets from other languages in the user's native tongue.
According to the company blog, "We we are now using Google Translate to to display Tweet translations in the details pane to give people more access to what people are talking about around the world."