Twitter is hiring in Singapore for its first data science team outside the U.S.

SINGAPORE — Twitter is searching for a team of data scientists to be based in Singapore, in its first effort to create such a team outside of the U.S.

Twitter's Linus Lee, who will be moving from Twitter's San Francisco headquarters to Singapore to head the team here, told Mashable the team will be between five and 10 strong, and will focus squarely on growing markets outside the U.S. — where 80% of the company's users now are.

Lee, a Singaporean who left the island state 10 years ago for undergraduate studies at Stanford, was one of Twitter's early data science hires four years ago. Read more...