Facebook appoints bizdev in Germany, as Twitter goes Deutsch
Since March 2008 German Facebook members have used the website in their own language. But the social network never showed ambitions to open a local office. Woods’ assignment as an advertisers’ contact is seen as a first step in this direction. He built up the Hamburg office for Last.fm from where he oversaw marketing, advertising and business development in Germany and Northern Europe. Before that he had worked as head of strategic partnership and business development Northern & Central Europe at Google.
At the very same time Twitter has announced its roll out in German, as well as in French, Italian and Spanish. Like Facebook they are looking for free ride from users translate. “We are inviting a small group of people to become volunteer translators at first”, says the blog post. The company will distribute the translations to Twitter platform developers making it easier for them to offer multiple language support as well.