Well, who the hell marks 100,000 favorite on Twitter anyway? Japanese! There are several reports and complaints that heavy Twitter-favorite users were suddenly unable to log in, mark favorite, tweet, etc. According to a popular and influencial Japanese web watcher @katoyuu, who also suffered this problem, listed up Japanese twitter users who had troubles referring… Continue reading You Will Be Locked Out Of Twitter When You Mark Favorite Over 100,000 Tweets
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The 7th and Final Bonen Kaigi
Daiya Hashimoto and 100shiki’s Gen Taguchi’s annual year end event Bounen Kaigi (Year-forgetting party+meeting) was held at Yahoo! Japan’s headoffice, Roppongi Midtown, Tokyo. This 7th anniversary, however, had been declared the last one. 2009 Ranking As always, the two hosts made their (personal) year ranking what impressed them in 2009. MovaTwitter (Asiajin): unofficial Twitter site… Continue reading The 7th and Final Bonen Kaigi
A New Japanese Twitter Clone Ameba-Now Front Loaded To PC Web
Cyber Agent, known by one of the most successful blog hosting Ameblo boasting thousand celebrities users, who started a new mobile microblog service Ameba Now, accelerated to launch its PC version 3 days later, today 11th, which was originally planned on 16th. Ameba Now’s top page (without login) shows featured celebrities messages. Different from cellphone… Continue reading A New Japanese Twitter Clone Ameba-Now Front Loaded To PC Web
Twitter Paid Account Plan Clearly Denied By Digital Garage
Official Twitter Japan blog [J] just wrote about their local partner Digital Garage’s announcement, which negates the news reported Twitter Japan will start paid account service. In response to media reports stating that Twitter Japan will be launching a paid-premium accounts service on Twitter, we would like to officially state that this is not correct.… Continue reading Twitter Paid Account Plan Clearly Denied By Digital Garage
User-made Twitter Client On Sony TV Bravia
Tvitter [J] is a Twitter client widget for Sony LCD Television Bravia. Some of latest versions of Bravia support AppliCast platform, on which user can program their own original widgets. Bravia user can go on her/his Bravia to this URL http://www.jp.sonystyle.com/Taiken/Appli/ , install the widget, and check the latest tweets and post to twitter on… Continue reading User-made Twitter Client On Sony TV Bravia
Popular Singer Kohmi Hirose Held A Twitter Live Concert
Kohmi Hirose, a Japanese pop singer/song writer, who is also known by her joining Twitter this year, made a Twitter (unofficial) song, one of 31 suggested Japanese Twitter accounts, had the first “Twitter Live Concert” in Japan. (I just do not know if there were similar concerts in other countries yet) The short concert with… Continue reading Popular Singer Kohmi Hirose Held A Twitter Live Concert
Mobile Giant Gree Remodelled Its Unpopular PC Site With Twitter Clone
Following to one of the Big 3 social networking service Mixi’s clone Mixi Voice, which made Evan Williams “unpleasant”, another successful, probably now most vital among three, social networking Gree enters into microblog service (registration required for all Gree pages besides the top login page). As once defeated a battle against Mixi on PC web,… Continue reading Mobile Giant Gree Remodelled Its Unpopular PC Site With Twitter Clone
140Trans: Now It’s So Easy To Tweet In Unfamiliar Languages
Tokyo-based start-up Anydoor started a translation service using Twitter on Tuesday. It’s named 140 Trans. When you post a tweet having attributes of an original language and a target language of your translation request, the service’s participating translators will give you back a translation result on Twitter. The service can handle 140 character long messages,… Continue reading 140Trans: Now It’s So Easy To Tweet In Unfamiliar Languages
Japan Public TV NHK Intensely Promotes Twitter
Following to Biz Stone’s first Tokyo visit for media interviews and Tweetup event, media is reporting a lot about Twitter in Japan now. Public, and the biggest TV station NHK broadcasts about Twitters three time in two days, each of them are totally made differently. As a public TV, NHK usually does not show specific… Continue reading Japan Public TV NHK Intensely Promotes Twitter
Japan-Only Twitter Mobile Page Takes Off
As implied by teaser page, Twitter Japan has launched an official Japanese cellphone site http://twtr.jp. Here is the teaser page changed to a guide page which has both cellphone site URL and QR Code. The current mobile site http://m.twitter.com/, which is not really usable (it did not work with many of Japanese phone browsers) for… Continue reading Japan-Only Twitter Mobile Page Takes Off