Twitter doubles down on India tech team to create local products for the world

Twitter which has seen its tech team in India grow over 150 per cent last year from 2020 is further expanding the teams under new CEO Parag Agrawal in order to build more products locally and take those to the world top company executives said here on TuesdayApurva Dalal Engineering Site Lead Twitter India said that the microblogging platform has ambitious plans for India this yearWe are excited about the growth and the opportunities that were creating in the country In order to scale our reach and build a service that is truly for Indians and by Indians we are committed to expanding our technical teams in the country Dalal told IANSOur goal is to innovate in India for our audiences here and take those solutions to the world which is why we are putting in place in market product research design data science and engineering teams in India he addedStarting this week Twitter will test a Cricket Tab on its Explore page rolling out the experiment to some people in India who use Twitter on AndroidLast month Twitter rolled out an experiment to test a dedicated curated tab for the Indian Premier League IPL to improve discoverability of content and enhance content consumption by surfacing the most relevant content and conversations in the lead up to and throughout the course of the tournamentIn December last year it started testing a revamped more personalised Explore page to make it easier for people to unwind find new interests and see whats happeningAccording to Dalal beyond engineering Twitter is scaling tech teams with senior hires across product management revenue science design research and data scienceThe hires across verticals are a testimony of our commitment to grow our team in India and build a service that is made in India for Indians said DalalAccording to him the expansion of the tech hub in India is in alignment with the companys overall belief that decentralisation of engineering talent is importantIt brings a diverse perspective and makes sense to represent our product that is used globally Dalal told IANSShirish Andhare Director and Head of Product Twitter India said that India is a priority market for TwitterWere building unique product solutions specifically catered to audiences in India Our tech team is focused on building more daily utility for both our new and existing audiences on Twitter with capabilities ranging from product development research and design as well as data science and machine learning Andhare told IANSThe companys global goal is to double its development velocity by 2023 and reach 315 million mDAU monetisable daily active users by Q4 2023In India mDAU grew by 74 per cent onyear in Q4 2020 Increasing development velocity and improving engineering scale globally will pave the way to achieve our ambitions around growing mDAU at a 20 per cent compound annual growth rate by 2023 globally said the Twitter India executivesTwitter said the expansion of the tech hub in India is in alignment with the companys overall belief that decentralisation of engineering talent is importantIt brings a diverse perspective and makes sense to represent our product that is used globally Dalal notedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever