Nottotter.jp is a new web service using Twitter account to exchange your writing rights with other Nottotter members for 5 minutes. In other words, registered user on Nottotter can tweet on some other user’s account for 5 minutes.

A Hatena blogger id:hitode909 developed and released [J] this Nottotter, which means “I’ve taken it over.” in Japanese.

The service authorizes users by Twitter OAuth API, and gets delegation to tweet under his/her name. When you take over other users right, your messages are tweeted by that user with hashtag #nottotterJP. When the 5 minutes passes, the service tweets under the user’s account that “@you took over @theuser account”.

The service quickly spread among Japanese Twitter users, over 5,000 people registered to make 12,537 tweets under others’ name before the service was shut down by Twitter official on 23th, two days after the launch. Checking the log tweets showed who took over whose account, so you cannot be really anonymous if you write something really nasty, but such many Japanese Twitter users seemed to enjoy the confusion caused by this intentional changelings.

Here is a sample part of tweets record showed on Nottotter.jp site.

After the API suspension, id:hitode909 posted a reply from Twitter official to his inquiry.

Tags: Japan, New Service by Akky Akimoto
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Generally speaking, social profile editors are a dime a dozen. In the last few months, for example, about.me, flavors.me or Follr have cropped up in the US, allowing users to pull information from various social networks together to build a single online identity.

But none of these services have a Japanese UI or integrate Japanese sites, prompting Tokyo-based Clutch to come up with This me, a free service that is supposed to let users create a “cool social profile page in 5 minutes”.

The way it works is pretty similar to the US-based editors mentioned above: just choose a username/personalized URL, select a design, upload pictures, connect with your existing social network profiles and blogs, and you’re done.

This is how the social profile of Clutch CEO Yuji Nakanishi looks (here‘s mine):

What’s interesting here (apart from the Japanese-only UI) is that This me makes it possible to integrate Mixi profiles, something that the US counterparts can’t offer. Clutch says that they plan to integrate GREE profiles in the next months, in addition to YouTube, Flickr and others.

The company expects to have 100,000 users for This me by year-end. It competes with similar local profile editors like Nifty’s aboutme.jp or Iddy.

Via Venture Now

Tags: Japan, New Service by Serkan Toto
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