Presented By
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo speaks during the Brand Matters keynote address at the 2014 International CES at The Las Vegas Hotel & Casino on January 8, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Ethan Miller—Getty Images

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has scheduled his first visit to China for a “personal” tour of the country, where some 600 million internet users are officially banned from tweeting.

Reuters reports that Costolo will meet with students, professors and local officials in Shanghai, including representatives of the city’s free trade zone.

Twitter insisted that Costolo had no plans to lobby for an end to China’s Twitter ban, or even a modest workaround. “We have no plans to change anything about our service in order to enter the market,” read an official statement from the company.

[Reuters]

More Must-Reads From TIME

Contact us at letters@time.com.

You May Also Like
EDIT POST