This week NYC's iconic pigeons welcomed a bird to town: the Twitter bird. On Thursday, October 6, Mayor Bloomberg and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey were present for the opening of the social network's first New York office. As explained in an article by Ben Popper on the website www.betabeat.com titled "Jack Dorsey Offers Mayor Bloomberg a Job at Twitter’s First New York Office," the new Madison Avenue office is an ideal location because according to Mr. Dorsey himself, the Big Apple is the city with the largest amount of Twitter users in the world and also the second largest amount of Twitter developers.
Twitter's new office opening happened during New York's 2011 Advertising Week. This was fitting because of the social network's reputation for being able to drum up enormous ad sales. In addition, the article quotes Mr. Dorsey as saying that "half a billion dollars have been invested into the Twitter ecosystem in the past year." These large sums of money associated with the company will make a good contribution to New York's economic landscape, as it plans create sales and technological engineering jobs in the city. In keeping with Mr. Dorsey's goals, it may even bring people to view New York as almost like the next Silicone Valley. Essentially, this new office opening establishes Twitter as a major corporation worthy of a place alongside other headquarters in the Big Apple, most of which have been around for a much longer time.
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