Updated: Twitter to open Australian office next year
Twitter is panning to launch a local office in the second half of 2013.
The news comes as the social media site started working to raise its local profile. Twitter plans to open in Australia in the second half of 2013.
This week the company began tweeteing from the verified profile Twitter Australia.
“lack of understanding of the rules of AFL.”
That’s hardly grounds for not being in Australia. I’ve been here for 10 years and don’t have a clue what goes on in a game. In fact, I’ve got Melbourne-based AFL fans as friends and they struggle to explain the rules around tackling someone.
Aside from that, a REAL Australian presence would be nice.
Simon Dell
http://www.TwoCentsGroup.com.au
Having been lucky enough to visit twitter HQ yesterday they’re saying AU launch is H2 2013.
Sort that out ASAP Simon, you owe it to your country
Is this the first office outside of HQ? If not, may be interesting to see if this office will be doing what those other one(s) are doing… abreast with local laws, etc.
They have offices in a few places – London, Tokyo, Dublin, Brazil, Seoul I think. Sydney makes sense given userbase and ad yields in AU.
Long overdue in Australia. Will be warmly welcomed I’d imagine.
Having seen many a game of AFL, Simon you would make a great umpire.
No plans for Australia Twoffice at this stage but they are planning to make a big splash in Australia to finish off this year.
It will be hard to match the San Francisco office at any event.
We are currently talking to them about plans in November & December.
Stay tuned…
Sean Callanan
@seancallanan
@SportsGeek
1. How on earth can they have offices all around the world, they’re not even turning a penny profit?
2. Why on earth do they need offices all around the world, anyway? What good is a local office, a local presence, going to do Twitter? It’s not like they advertise or actually do anything but cut code for the back-end of the service.
3. Am I the only one who finds their takeover of the Aussie flag disrespectful? I’m by no means one of the “We fought and died under this flag!” brigade, but putting your logo over the flag is a bit rich. The Twitter bird with a little Southern Cross marking – well, maybe that would have looked a bit bogan! – but maybe painted in the colours of the Aussie flag, or wearing the flag like a cape. But superimposing the logo on top of the flag is a bit much.
They are definately from the US of A then!!!
Good detective work