NEW DELHI: Twitter is working on making its user policies available in Indian languages like Hindi and Urdu to increase 'informed' usage of the microblogging site across non-English speaking population in the country.

The user policies, which are guidelines to the kind of content that can be shared on the website, are currently available in English in India.

"India is an important country for us... One of our focus areas is to educate the users. There is a large non-English speaking population... We are working on translating our policies in languages like Hindi and Urdu," Twitter General Counsel Vijaya Gadde told PTI.

This will help users understand the policies better and they can decide what content kind of content they want to share, she added.

Currently, Twitter offers its terms and conditions in German, French, Portugese, Spanish and Korean. It has recently updated its usage terms, which will be effective May 18, 2015.

Twitter already allows its users to tweet in Devanagari script (Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit), Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Bengali, Oriya, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Urdu and Sindhi.

Though the company has not disclosed the size of its user base in the country, it has stated that India ranks amongst its fastest growing markets.

Twitter also did not disclose how many of its users use the services in regional/vernacular languages.

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