Korean is now one of seven languages offered on Twitter.com.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
South Korea is one of the world’s most wired nations, with a high-speed broadband service and a booming business in smartphones.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Twitter, which was created in 2006 and allows people to post short messages of no more than 140 characters, had 175 million registered users worldwide as of November 1 and transmitted 25 billion “Tweets” last year.<\/p>\n
The popularity of the site has been boosted as Celebrities and high-profile CEOs such as Doosan Infracore Chairman Park Yong-Man and Chung Yong-Jin, vice chairman of retail giant Shinsegae, have joined it to communicate with fans and customers.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n