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India among top five markets for Twitter

Twitter plans to go big on providing video content, says company

India among top five markets for Twitter
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People holding mobile phones are silhouetted against a backdrop projected with the Twitter logo in this illustration picture (File Photo: Reuters)

Karan Choudhury New Delhi
From working on tools to take on trolls to making their product more appealing to the mass market, Twitter on Thursday said it was planning to attract a much larger user base in India even in areas where bandwidth was an issue. 
Twitter also plans to go big on providing video content that, according to the company, works well with Indian consumers. The micro-blogging site has around 24 million active users in India.

For Twitter, last year was filled with issues ranging from high-profile exits to job cuts. Parminder Singh, managing director of West Asia and North Africa, and India head Rishi

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