Twitter’s Country Director for India, Taranjeet Singh has decided to quit the company and announced its registration. He was elevated as to the post in May 2017.
Singh made his resignation public through a series of tweets late on Tuesday by saying that Balaji Krish who is the Global Head of Revenue Strategy and Operations will be the new interim country head.
“Hello everyone, after four amazing years, I have decided to move on from @TwitterIndia – from being one of the first @Twitter employees in #India, to building up the sales team from the ground up, to leading our expansion and investments as the India Country Director,” Singh said.
Earlier to that, he was leading the post as sales and marketing support for Twitter’s advertisers in India.
“India is one of our largest and fastest growing markets worldwide today. We have hired many Tweeps at @TwitterIndia, diversified our client base across the country and continue to be the pulse of Indian society,” Singh said.
Singh played the role of sales director of South Asia for BBC Advertising before joining Twitter. Prior to that, he held many posts at Outlook Publishing.
“I’ll spend the next month transitioning my country duties to colleague and friend @BalajiKrish, our global head of revenue strategy and operations.
“He’s coming from the US to be interim country lead until my replacement is hired,” Singh informed.
Twitter launched “Twitter Lite” during his career with the company, which is more accessible, faster and affordable way to get real-time information.
Talking about the company Twitter’s collaboration with the government, the micro-blogging platform is as of now working with the government to develop a platform of real-time citizen engagement through “Twitter Seva”.
“As an India-first innovation, ‘Twitter Seva’ is currently being used by the Ministry of Commerce (@DIPPGOI), the Ministry of Railways (@RailMinIndia) and the Department of Telecommunications (@Dot_India) under the Ministry of Communication,” Singh had said in an interview.
During Singh’s career with the company, Twitter explored a new revenue stream and many ways of innovation in India.
“The launch of Twitter Data’ services in APAC with Discovery Networks Asia Pacific as the first client in the region is one such step and India are one of the focus markets for this,” Singh said.
Currently, there are 30.4 million followers of the micro-blogging site Twitter in India, according to the statistics website “Statista.com”.
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