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Twitter targets Asia with support for 5 new languages

By Jon Russell Thu, Sep 15, 2011 11:02AM UTC View Comments

Twitter has demonstrated how important Asia is for its service by introducing support for five new regional languages. Chinese (both simplified and traditional), Hindi, Tagalog and Malay are the new additions that will help significant numbers of users across Asia gain access to non-English versions of the service. Each language will have its own dedicated...

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Assessing the growing influence of Asia’s internet

By Jon Russell Fri, Sep 09, 2011 2:00PM UTC View Comments

Social Media New Zealand has an excellent guest post from Simon Grigg looking at the rise of Asia online, and how the continent’s growth is likely to see it influence the western world, which has until now been the influencer-in-chief. Overall, I agree with Simon’s take on things – Asia is gaining greater significance, no...

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Asian growth drives global internet past 2bn users

By Jon Russell Fri, Jan 28, 2011 3:00PM UTC View Comments

The UN recently announced that the number of internet users globally now numbers two billion, up almost 10% in the last year, while the organisation estimates that there are five billion mobile phone users worldwide. Both significant increases as outlined by this AFP article excerpted below: Fresh data posted online by the agency showed that...

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