---- Eine Chinesische Benutzer verwendet die Social Networking app Twitter auf sein Smartphone in Shanghai, China, 26. September 2013. Twitter Inc. hat op
--FILE--A Chinese smartphone user uses the social networking app Twitter on his smartphone in Shanghai, China, 26 September 2013. Twitter Inc has opened a Hong Kong office, its first in the Greater China region, the company whose microblogging services are blocked on the mainland said on Tuesday (10 March 2015). The office, to be headed by Twitter executive Peter Greenberger, will allow the San Francisco-based company to tap China for advertising revenue, the company said, even if Internet users on the mainland cannot see those ads. Twitter collected $479 million in fourth-quarter revenue from advertisers who paid to inject their ads, known as "promoted tweets", into Twitter users' timelines. The company has 288 million users worldwide. China's censors have blocked Twitter's microblog since 2009 along with U.S. social media platform Facebook Inc and Google Inc's YouTube. Despite the ban, Chinese companies including Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] and the state-owned Xinhua news agency use Twitter's microblogging service to reach a global audience.
