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Twitter People Meets 200 Users in Japan
On Tuesday, June 30th, two people from Twitter USA had an user meeting [J] with 200 Japanese users at Omotesando. signboard “t” and “tsu” (the first letter of …
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Twitter Events Maelstorm Hitting Tokyo
Although the growth is not high as in English, twitter has been beloved by Japanese users even before its localization, and probably approaching to the critical mas. Many twitter related events (some …
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Twitter Heartbeat Posting Device Akiduki-Pulse
Koress Project [J] released an opensource hardware “Akiduki Pulse” [J], which links your pulsebeat and twitter to let your friends and the world know your heartbeat status. By 3 levels of …
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Mainichi Starts Tweeting Following Asahi
Mainichi Newspaper, which is considered to have Japan’s longest newspaper history, and its English edition, Mainichi Daily News (MDN) set up accounts for Twitter, and started tweeting news …
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Asahi Newspaper Tweets Soccer and RSS Mixed
As we reported a week ago, national newspaper Asahi Shimbun began a twitter experiment reporting soccer match by national team for the World Cup. The tweeted reports were well-received by web users, …
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Japanese Newspaper Finally Tweets
For the first case in Japanese newspaper’s history, Asahi Shimbun, one of the country’s nationwide major papers, set up an account for Twitter[J] today, and is running play-by-play tweet …
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ex-Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie Begins Twitter and Got 2,500 Followers in 5 Hours
Takafumi Horie, aka Horiemon, who founded livedoor, one of the Japanese major web companies, who was arrested by securities fraud in 2006, began twitter and quickly getting thousands of followers in …
