- Despite being blocked in China, Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) is courting Chinese companies to buy advertising space on its service - used by more than 300M people elsewhere across the globe.
- "This seems to be a moment in time where Chinese corporations really feel the urge to be global," said Peter Greenberger, director of sales for emerging markets.
- Twitter collected $436M in Q1 revenue from advertisers who paid to inject their ads, known as "promoted tweets", in to users' timelines.