Japan’s upper house election campaign period began on 24th June. Internet updates during election has been banned in Japan. It was a discussion to legalize blog updates (but not Twitter, funny how they tried to draw line between them) recently, but it could not make this time in time. According to J-Cast [J], incumbent upper… Continue reading Japan’s Internet-Banned Election Probed By Voice Over Twitter
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Dot War – Command Your Twitter Icon Battalion
Dot War is a Flash-based strategy game with thousands of generated units from your, your friends’ or random Twitter icons. On the start menu, you may choose “single scenario”, “manual match-up” or “automatic VS mode”. You may manipulate your troops by mouse, or in the automatic mode, your setting two icons fight in auto-play. And… Continue reading Dot War – Command Your Twitter Icon Battalion
Uniqlo’s Twitter Mashup Sportweet
Uniqlo, Japan based apparel chainstore, who has been releasing your tweets visualization actively, just released another one with sports as its theme, Sportweet. As usual, your Twitter account name is required. (Last time on Lucky Line, they demanded unnecessary Twitter password and was critisized) Your tweets are visually designed with some athletes, such like a… Continue reading Uniqlo’s Twitter Mashup Sportweet
A Japanese Heavy Twitter User Pausing A Day Thought As Missing By Followers, Retweeted Frantically
Japan is increasing Twitter addicts everyday. Percentage of Japanese tweets is now about 20% and chasing USA’s 27% (by TweetSentiments). On May 30th, a Japanese girl cosplayer(= costume player, person whose hobby is wearing fictional characters costume) Jekyll Yui [J], who had been sending 50-250 tweets everyday on her Twitter account @_01 [J], stopped tweeting… Continue reading A Japanese Heavy Twitter User Pausing A Day Thought As Missing By Followers, Retweeted Frantically
Twitter Mobile Version Now Limits 140 “Bytes” Not “letters”
Twitter API seems down and many Twitter client authors are trying to say it is not their bugs but Twitter’s glitch. Twitter official URL shortener experiment may be the cause of this trouble. At the same time, mobile.twitter.com seems to accept maximum 140 bytes, which had been 140 letters. It is the same for English… Continue reading Twitter Mobile Version Now Limits 140 “Bytes” Not “letters”
Japan’s Prime Minister Tweets His Farewell
9 hours later of his expressing intention to resign Japan’s prime minister job, the first tweeting prime minister, who boasts the most popular Japanese Twitter user, posted his first tweet today. Today, I made a statement to resign as prime minister. It is to take back clean Democratic Party of Japan to listen to the… Continue reading Japan’s Prime Minister Tweets His Farewell
Uniqlo’s Lucky Line Campaign Makes It To The Twitter Trending Topics
Japanese fashion giant Uniqlo has made it to the Twitter Trending Topics through their latest campaign “Lucky Line”, which celebrates their 26th anniversary. The central campaign website [J] extends to reveal a virtual line of Twitter users who have entered for the chance to win a 1,000 yen coupon to Uniqlo shops. Users join the line by auto-tweeting from… Continue reading Uniqlo’s Lucky Line Campaign Makes It To The Twitter Trending Topics
New Paid Tweet Service Twad Launched By Japan #2 Internet Ads Agency Opt
What a bad timing! Opt, Inc., one of Japan’s largest internet ads agency, Kazeniwa and Overtex launched a new advertising platform on influencers’ tweets, named Twad.jp (pronounced “Tsuado”) on May 24th. On Twad, Twitter user (publisher) can register their region, categories s/he regularly tweets, etc. and how much yen they want for single tweet from… Continue reading New Paid Tweet Service Twad Launched By Japan #2 Internet Ads Agency Opt
Prime Minister Hatoyama Overtakes Japanese Twitter Top Position From Gachapin
Japan’s prime minister Yukio Hatoyama (@hatoyamayukio [J]) has finally gotten more twitter followers than the former top user Gachapin (Wikipedia. @gachapinblog [J]), a five years old dinosaur child. 634,519 followers 628,731 followers Incidentally, there was a battle for overall top position happend yesterday between Britney Spears and Ashton Kutcher. Number of their followers are little… Continue reading Prime Minister Hatoyama Overtakes Japanese Twitter Top Position From Gachapin
Twiman: Twitter Timeline In Manga-Comic Style
Twiman by Fumufumu Soft is a twitter decoration service which makes Japanese Manga style cartoon with tweets from yours, your timeline and your lists. You need to log in the service by giving permission by Twitter, then the tweets on your timeline embedded into random manga pictures. It seems to generate picture with all tweets… Continue reading Twiman: Twitter Timeline In Manga-Comic Style