Japanese TV Viewership Measurer Video Research To Cooperate With Twitter Japan

Video Research, a company providing Japanese television audience rating, also belongs to the nation’s largest ad agency Dentsu group, announced that it is planning to offer a new television viewer rating based on number of tweets [J]. Twitter Japan will assist it by providing hashtag search streaming API. As a first attempt, Video Research is… Continue reading Japanese TV Viewership Measurer Video Research To Cooperate With Twitter Japan

Japanese Twitter Users Play On New Japanese Hashtags

Official Twitter blog announced [J] that Twitter is capable of Japanese character hashtags. (our post reported it) Then, a lot of Japanese Twitter users started strange wordplay. This is a trend hashtags of yesterday’s Tokyo. What are these long hashtags? They are themes of wordplay. # like a game in “Who’s Line Is It Anyway?” (Akky) For… Continue reading Japanese Twitter Users Play On New Japanese Hashtags

Twitter Finally Supports Japanese Hashtag

Official Japanese Twitter blog announced [J] today that Twitter is now capable of Japanese character hashtags. Now when you use # or its Japanese version # followed by Japanese keywords on your tweet, that will be automatically linked on Twitter. As Japanese is not a language separated by spaces, it is a bit tricky to… Continue reading Twitter Finally Supports Japanese Hashtag