Twitter eyes Japan, Britain to boost growth of users

New York: In a new attempt to recover from growth stalled users and declining revenue, the website of micro-blogging Twitter has joined hands with the business profile and review site Yelp to provide location services for Japan and Britain within your application.

The Yelp integration give users of Twitter in Japan and Britain a choice selection of places provided Yelp when tagging a place in their tweets, the technology website TechCrunch reported on Saturday.

According to Yelp, the service has gone live on the iOS and Android platforms and will soon be available for Twitter on the Internet.

"Twitter users in the UK and Japan now can simply touch the location icon to add geotags to Tweets Yelp," Chad Richard, senior vice president of business and corporate development Yelp published.

When users click particular places, you will see a separate business card Yelp notes, places, and even a direct link Yelp application.

When users click to read tweets Twitter places, they will receive a separate details such as address and Yelp rating, along with a link to go directly to see that the place itself Yelp app, added the report card.

More location data Twitter can help lay the foundation of a new unit of the publicity surrounding locations. You can also sell potentially that companies are being marked on labels.

However, Twitter users in the US keep receiving suggestions venue search and mobile application foursquare location service after marking the location of their tweets.

Integrating Yelp for Japan and Britain also gives the micro-blogging site some more resistance to allow user’s interest grows. It is also another objective of expanding the functionality of its platform, TechCrunch said.

According to the website of micro-blogging, which now has more than 300 million active users, much less when compared with that of Facebook 1.5 billion users by making it more popular, faster, and choice of vendors plus.

Twitter reported 305 million monthly active users for the fourth quarter of this year, compared with 307 million in the third quarter excluding the followers of SMS-only.

In an attempt to bring the tweets more people around the world, Twitter is planning to introduce a line of algorithmic time as Facebook. The timeline rearranged tweets based on what you think the algorithm Twitter more people want to see.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has made several moves, including cutting jobs and appoint former chief business officer of Google, Omid Kordestani, as CEO of Twitter.

Under Dorsey, Twitter has launched a news healing function "Moments" and says the company is working to extend the limit of 140 characters identification Twitter to 10,000.

Twitter is also set for a major overhaul under Dorsey to revive the fortunes of the company with some of the high-profile executives who put in his papers.