Twitter CEO bullish on wearable devices and sees new opportunities

Twitter CEO Dick Costello

May 16 Morning News, according to foreign media reports, Twitter CEO Dick Costello in the annual meeting of the American Venture Capital Association today, Twitter will have a huge development space on wearable computing devices, especially in the health sector.

Founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Francisco, Twitter employs about 2000 people. Twitter is aggressively expanding its mobile platform to further boost advertising revenue and the number of users.

"There is a growing number of users who are sending tweets on wearable computing devices and I think Twitter has a lot of potential in this area, especially in health," Costello said at the conference. "Twitter and Nike have collaborated on wearable devices that allow users to send workout data through tweets," he said. In addition, Costello that Twitter can also try other similar applications, such as working with fitness scale manufacturers, allowing users to automatically post weight data online after weighing.

At the same time, Twitter is also developing products and services for Google glasses.