Twitter to set up shop in Indonesia

Twitter plans to open an office in Indonesia over the coming months as it seeks to boost revenues in the social-media-addicted nation. Several market monitors have declared Jakarta as the world's most active city of tweeters. Twitter does not publicise official user numbers by country or city. 'This is of great importance to Twitter because Indonesia loves Twitter and Twitter loves Indonesia,' the company's president of global revenue and partnerships, Adam Bain, told reporters in Jakarta as he made the announcement on Friday. 'In fact, when we think about the market overall, Indonesia is one of the biggest countries that are active on Twitter,' Bain said. Like many social networking platforms, Twitter is yet to turn a profit, but the San Francisco-based company's second-quarter revenues more than doubled on-year to $US312 million ($A337.57 million). The number of monthly active users surged 24 per cent to 271 million globally in the same period. Indonesia is a major market for Twitter - it is the world's fourth most populous country with some 250 million people, and smartphone sales are surging as the middle class grows rapidly, according to AP.