Plugging into silicon success offers hope for economic recovery

IT’S rare that the opening of a corporate office can be regarded as really good news.

Maybe we’ve reached the stage of clutching at straws but the news this week that Twitter, the social media service, has chosen Dublin as the location for its first European office may be highly encouraging and significant for a number of reasons.

Let’s start with the fact that Twitter, along with other “cutting-edge” technology companies I’ll mention later, regard Ireland as a suitable location in which to base, despite the massive amount of negative publicity about the country in recent times and speculation as to its continued membership of the euro. That vote of confidence is important.