Facebook to Launch Country Specific Sites
Mashable is reporting that Facebook is working to take the platform global by translating it into non-English languages. The company, which has yet to focus on growth over-sea’s, obviously realizes the potential of having language specific versions of the site. According to a Facebook representative,
“Translation at some level is definitely on our radar. International growth is one of a few things that we are very focused on right now.”
It will not necessarily be easy for Facebook to overtake language specific incumbents who have extremely devote user bases. Although Facebook is quickly becoming the defacto social network here in the US, their subscriber numbers pale in comparison to many of the most popular social networks overseas. an aggressive growth plan into the international social networking market place is more then likely driven by two factors; increasing subscriber numbers and ad revenues. Coming off the heels of their visit to Microsoft, it is clear that Facebook is on a mission to hit those 10 billion valuation numbers with international expansion as the primary growth driver.
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