[bogomipz]

>"To truly serve the public conversation, we must be more immersed in the rich and vibrant communities that drive the conversations taking place every day across the African continent."

So they correctly acknowledge that those communities are already engaged in conversations. How does encouraging these same folks to Tweet at each other improve upon the way they are already conversing? Twitter seems to have appropriated the word "conversation" the same way Facebook has done for the word "friend". That is to say completely redefined it to suit their own business objectives.

I'm glad they're hiring in Africa. There's tons of really smart people there doing interesting things. It's also a very young place per capita. Why couldn't they just say as much though and leave it at that? Instead they decided couch the whole thing in this cringeworthy bit of "noblesse oblige."