{"id":21666,"date":"2016-02-22T10:53:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T02:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=21666"},"modified":"2016-02-22T10:53:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T02:53:31","slug":"twittercityph-launched-to-highlight-twitter-growth-in-phl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2016\/02\/22\/twittercityph-launched-to-highlight-twitter-growth-in-phl\/","title":{"rendered":"#TwitterCityPH launched to highlight Twitter growth in Phl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In recognition of the Philippines as one of the world\u2019s largest social media markets and as one of Twitter\u2019s fastest growing markets in 2015, the company has launched the #TwitterCityPH.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21667\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Buhay-Twitter.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21667\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21667\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Buhay-Twitter.jpg\" alt=\"(From left) Aliza Knox, VP Online Sales - APAC and LATAM, Twitter; Rishi Jaitly, Vice President - Media, Asia Pacific &amp; Middle East, Twitter; a life-sized standee of Maine Mendoza of the global phenomenon AlDub; and Richard Alfonsi, VP for Global Online Sales, Twitter.\" width=\"620\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Buhay-Twitter.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Buhay-Twitter-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>(From left) Aliza Knox, VP Online Sales &#8211; APAC and LATAM, Twitter; Rishi Jaitly, Vice President &#8211; Media, Asia Pacific &amp; Middle East, Twitter; a life-sized standee of Maine Mendoza of the global phenomenon AlDub; and Richard Alfonsi, VP for Global Online Sales, Twitter.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The #TwitterCityPH, which is installed in a private space at the Mind Museum, comprises of different buildings and interactive zones, such as photobooth area #SelfieMuna; a classroom with the Twitter #FlightSchool training; a Twitter #Trending Frenzy Wall; an AlDub TV Booth; a basketball court; a #FoodStrip; and #PiliPinasDebates2016 podiums. There are also city street signs and local transportation that allow visitors to immerse themselves in the local culture and discover facts about how Twitter is integrated into Filipino life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate all of the love from Filipinos and we\u2019re launching our first Asian #TwitterCity in the Philippines to show our commitment to our users, partners, and advertisers here,\u201d said Richard Alfonsi, VP for global online sales at Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>According to Rishi Jaitley, Twitter\u2019s VP for media, Asia-Pacific and Middle East, the breakout for Twitter in the Philippines happened in 2015. However, he added that \u201cwe haven\u2019t reached the tipping point but it shows how essential Twitter is in the Philippines,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter also signed a partnership with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for the #TwitterElection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recognition of the Philippines as one of the world\u2019s largest social media markets and as one of Twitter\u2019s fastest growing markets in 2015, the company has launched the #TwitterCityPH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[4121,3417,96,698],"class_list":["post-21666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-twittercityph","tag-online-app","tag-technology","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}