Singapore - In its first-ever TV partnership in Southeast Asia, Twitter announced a collaboration with MediaCorp to showcase premium video highlights of Singapore’s 50th National Day Parade (NDP) exclusively on the new @MediaCorp Twitter account (https://twitter.com/mediacorp). MediaCorp will tweet the high-quality video clips throughout the event and during the live TV broadcast on 9 August to enhance the TV watching experience with the live, public conversations about #NDP2015 on … [Read more...] about Twitter collaborates with MediaCorp
Twitter opens office in Singapore
Singapore –Twitter announced that the company has officially opened its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore and will be adding more than 100 jobs over the next few years to meet the growing demand from its users, partners and advertisers across the Asia-Pacific region. Since opening in a serviced office in the fall of 2013, the Singapore-based team has grown to 80 staff members in less than two years and moved to a new office space to accommodate the company’s plans to more than … [Read more...] about Twitter opens office in Singapore
Periscope on Android is LIVE
Singapore – When Twitter launched Periscope, the company wanted to build the closest thing to teleportation — by providing users with the best way to start or watch a live video broadcast. As a small startup, Periscope’s initial launch was limited to just iOS, but it has been expanded to provide users of Android an experience that feels special, yet still unmistakably Periscope. Twitter is excited to announce the launch of Periscope on Android! Android owners using Version 4.4 … [Read more...] about Periscope on Android is LIVE
Twitter opens Hong Kong office
Hong Kong – Hot on the heels of its Indonesian office opening last week, Twitter has officially opened its Hong Kong office to service the online and mobile advertising markets across Greater China. With many Chinese brand advertisers and app developers selling to the worldwide market, Twitter provides an attractive opportunity to reach over 288 million monthly active users, 80% of which are on mobile, that send over 500 million Tweets per day. In addition, millions of people across Hong … [Read more...] about Twitter opens Hong Kong office
Twitter launches new features
Singapore – A few months ago, Twitter mentioned some features coming soon, and Twitter is excited to start rolling out two of them: group messaging and a new mobile video experience. Converse with a group, privately Private conversations on Twitter are a great complement to the largely public experience on the platform. You might prefer to read (or watch) Tweets but converse about them privately. You might want to continue a public conversation privately with a smaller group, or start one … [Read more...] about Twitter launches new features
Twitter welcomes ZipDial
Mumbai – Twitter announced today that it has reached an agreement to acquire ZipDial, its product partner based in Bangalore, to make Twitter even more accessible to people around the world. This is Twitter’s first ever acquisition in India. Christian Oestlien, VP of Product, Twitter explained, "Over the next several years, billions of people will come online for the first time in countries like Brazil, India and Indonesia. For many, their first online experience will be on a mobile … [Read more...] about Twitter welcomes ZipDial
