Twitter To Aggressively Build Sales Staff In Japan, According To CEO

Twitter’s CEO, Dick Costolo, spoke to reporters in Tokyo today about Twitter’s plans to aggressively grow its presence in Japan.

Bloomberg reports that Costolo is looking to expand Twitter’s office in Japan to include more engineers and sales staff. Although he didn’t specify numbers, the additions will likely be significant.

Japan has the third-largest tweeting population with 29.9 million accounts created before January 1st, behind the US and Brazil.

Twitter has had a close relationship with Japan since its early days.

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