Microblogging site Twitter on January 19 opened a Korean-language website in an attempt to expand further into a market that has grown almost tenfold in the past year. Korean is now one of seven languages offered on Twitter.com.
"The Korean-language tweets have grown even faster than tweets in general. We've seen over 3,400 percent growth of Korean-language tweets from January 2010 through December," Yonhap news agency quoted Twitter co-founder Evan Williams as saying during a visit to Seoul.
South Korea is one of the world's most wired nations, with a high-speed broadband service and a booming business in smartphones. There were more than 2.2 million registered South Korean Twitter users as of last month compared with 250,000 in January 2010, according to a recent report by Daumsoft.
It gained further prominence in Seoul after North Korea, one of the world's most reclusive nations, opened an account last year as part of its escalating online propaganda efforts.
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