{"id":7590,"date":"2012-12-05T14:30:24","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T13:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=7590"},"modified":"2019-05-16T18:29:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T16:29:17","slug":"france-twitters-next-big-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2012\/12\/france-twitters-next-big-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter VP Katie Stanton says France is the next big focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Twitter Katie Stanton at LeWeb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.webrazzi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/twitter-leweb-225x136.png\" alt=\"Twitter Katie Stanton at LeWeb\" width=\"225\" height=\"136\" \/>Le Web&#8217;s first day was jammed packed with loads of interesting, high profile speakers. \u00a0As mentioned earlier, in this version, France seemed to get more focus than in previous years, challenging the conventional wisdom that Le Web is a conference made in France, but in no way really about France. \u00a0This time around, various French tech leaders and start-ups were in the spotlight. However, even non-French companies dedicated some time to France. \u00a0One of the most visible of the day was Kate Stanton, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/tag\/Twitter\/\">Twitter<\/a>&#8216;s VP of International Development who, in addition to speaking more broadly about Twitter&#8217;s international development plans, \u00a0spent a good chunk of time talking about their plans for France.<br \/>\nEarlier this fall, France&#8217;s tech media (including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2012\/10\/12\/twitter-to-hire-up-to-ten-in-paris-by-spring-2013\/\">your&#8217;s truly<\/a>), discussed at length Twitter&#8217;s plans to establishing office in France with 13 hires by spring 2013. \u00a0 Stanton talked about how France is Twitter&#8217;s next big focus market. \u00a0Having grown by 150% this year, they see France as an exciting opportunity and expect they&#8217;ll keep up their strong momentum here.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Katie Stanton, VP Global market dev, saying France will be the next market to focus on, 150% growth !! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LeWeb?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LeWeb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Olivier Lacroix (@Olivier_lacroix) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Olivier_lacroix\/status\/275970574386352129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 4, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nShe also spoke a bit about the importance of Twitter&#8217;s partners and, in particular, how the \u00a0sophistication of France&#8217;s media will be a very important part of aiding their development here. \u00a0Another tidbit of information about their strategy was their plans to foster the development of local city &#8216;networks&#8217;. In France, they plan to build up these local networks across the country, although Bordeaux and Toulouse were named as key priorities.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Web&#8217;s first day was jammed packed with loads of interesting, high profile speakers. \u00a0As mentioned earlier, in this version, France seemed to get more focus than in previous years, challenging the conventional wisdom that Le Web is a conference made in France, but in no way really about France. \u00a0This time around, various French<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":7593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10564],"tags":[8863],"class_list":["post-7590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech-2","tag-twitter-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}