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Twitter adds Indo, SG on Trends; skips PH

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief November 16, 2010 · 1 min read

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Twitter ay pinagbabatid na nagdagdag ito ng higit sa isang dosena pang mga bansa at lungsod sa lokal na listahan ng Trending Topics. Ang mga bansang ito ay kumakatawan sa kanilang pinakamabilis na lumalaking merkado sa buong mundo. Mabilis kong sinuri ang listahan, inaasahang makikita ko doon ang Maynila o ang Pilipinas.

Dalawang bansa sa Timog-Silangang Asya ang kasama -- Indonesia at Singapore. Walang Pilipinas. Ngayon ay nagsasabi na ito ng marami. At akala ko ba tayo ang kapital ng social media sa mundo na may pinakamabilis na paglago ng populasyon sa FB at Twitter? At alam kong ang mga lokal na paksa at personalidad ay patuloy na nasa global trending topic ng Twitter din.

Bakit naging bahagi ng listahan ang Indonesia at Singapore bago tayo ay napakalaking indikasyon. O kaya'y hindi sapat na malaki ang populasyon ng Pilipinas sa Twitter para mapansin ito, o kaya'y hindi kami gaanong makapag-monetisa ( Tandaan na nagbebenta ang Twitter ng mga sponsored topics sa listahan ng trends) upang bigyan ng prioridad. Baka sa susunod na roll-out.

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luiboowee · 16 years ago

Even on BlackBerry, I think you couldn’t add Philippines as your domain. Interesting enough that there’s Vietnam in the list.

iCool · 16 years ago

^tama

jken · 16 years ago

@Gwapito, well that’s because we speak good English. Why would they spend money and exert effort to include Tagalog content when Filipinos are already well versed in English right? :)

Aidz · 16 years ago

money money money, they’ll soon realize they’re losing a hefty chunk of the Asian market by not tapping PH

Josh · 16 years ago

Monetization would be my bet.

Just look at how hard-up Multiply is in getting any form of $$ off the relatively huge Philippine market they have.

I guess that’s why even gadgets usually land in SG first, despite it’s smaller population.

Gwapito · 16 years ago

If Twitter’s reason is monetization, then including Indonesia was a good move. Bahasa language is more widely spoken than Tagalog. Even in Adsense, there is no Adsense for Tagalog content.

luiboowee · 16 years ago

Not to mention, there’s a Filipino in every single island/state/country/international water/corner/sky/underground/underwater in the world. (hehe, exagg)

Manix · 16 years ago

i dont think the report is pointing to population of that particular country. its talking specifically about Trending Topics.

the phils certainly have tons of twitter members, but mostly twit to communicate with friends, but not necessarily heavy traffic on trending topics.

daniel · 16 years ago

ha SINGAPORE got a spot? hell wala pa sa tuhod ng pilipinas ang population ng singapore… mas malaki pa nga ang metro manila sa bansa nila bat nauna pa sila sa atin? porket mayaman sila? eww.

taztech · 16 years ago

Twitter is after profit for sure. Though filipinos can certainly get a topic into top trending (e.g few days ago, abs-cbn xmas jingle popped in the top trending topic and im pretty sure the pacquiao tweets most came from Philippines too), twitter ignores Philippines for it finds no profit here.
Singapore, though just 1/20 of size of the philippines in ters of popuation, has a wealthy businesses and citizens.

Indonesia on the other hand is a booming economy with large pool of population, twitter expects profit here in years to come.
Oh well what do you expect from Twitter,a capitalist company from Imperialist Country. (Sigh)