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Targeted only to Portuguese ... how this would kick off Twitter?
by csbartus 17y ago
Targeted only to Portuguese ... how this would kick off Twitter?
- colins_pride 17y agoMaybe that's part of their plan for managing userbase growth
- herval 17y agoit's probably a smart move from Yahoo -- brazil is known for adopting 'lesser' stuff (orkut instead of facebook, fotolog instead of flickr/similars), some video sites instead of youtube (although youtube is also popular here) launching a twitter for the brazilian market is a rather obvious idea. Although twitter is catching up real quick in brazil, so maybe it's a bit late...
- pkulak 17y agoWhat does Portugal have to do with Brazil?
- jrmurad 17y agoWhere are you getting Portugal from? Portuguese (the language spoken in Brazil)? Clicking the "acesse"* link brings me to Yahoo's clearly Brazilian portal. * which I think might be spelled "accesse" with two C's in Portugal (like acção->ação [action] changed from Portugal to its former colony)
- pkulak 17y agoAh, I didn't know they spoke Portuguese in Brazil.
- gojomo 17y agoBrazil is the world's largest population of Portuguese speakers -- 190 million in Brazil, compared to 10 million in Portugal.
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- rglullis 17y ago"Lesser" stuff? Orkut was dominated by Brazilians in 2004. That is at a time when Friendster was the social media darling and Facebook was still called TheFacebook. When Fotolog was huge in Brazil, Flickr was still a MMOG. You just can't say that Brazil adopted "lesser" stuff, when the "other" stuff didn't even exist in a comparable form.
- herval 17y agoso maybe brazil is such an early adopter it ends up ignoring sites that get popular everywhere else, then? :-)
- slig 17y agoYahoo! Answers is really big down here, maybe isn't that too late to catch up users that probably never heard about twitter.