{"id":10619,"date":"2010-10-12T22:46:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T13:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=10619"},"modified":"2010-10-12T22:46:45","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T13:46:45","slug":"facebook-sudden-surge-in-japan-by-notable-web-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/facebook-sudden-surge-in-japan-by-notable-web-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Sudden Surge In Japan By Notable Web Users"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nJapan is known<\/a> as one of the most difficult countries<\/a> for Facebook.
\nHowever, there has been sudden Facebook buzz happening in Japanese websphere now for about a week. Tokyo-based social media consultant company Looops Communications counted that there were over 11.7% Japanese Facebook users increase observed in 11 days last week<\/a>. According to them, the number of users shown on FacebookAds stats moved up from 1,426,480 to 1,593,440, which now reaches 1.26% of Japanese population, 0.14% up only in 11 days.
\nAs far as I know, this “boom” began by couple of influential Japanese bloggers, including @amachang<\/a>, @hamachiya2<\/a>, @yusukebe<\/a> and @holygrail<\/a>, who tried to rediscover Facebook around October 6th, with calling their Hatena\/Twitter friends back to Facebook and taught how to organize your Facebook home page by dismissing too much information. Many Japanese early-adopters made friends networks on Facebook when it was first introduced, and had had chances to maintain it, which makes the information on their home page overloaded.
\nMost of those Japanese web-savvy people had Facebook accounts for 2-3 years, but they never returned. After this “rediscover Facebook” day, many people expressed that they are surprised with its changes, for Japanese people, Facebook today is so “fast and light” from the one in their mind since 2 years ago.
\nAfter the day, the top page of Hatena Bookmarks<\/a>, the most popular Japanese social bookmarking service (which also has some social news aspects like Digg\/reddit), has many Facebook-related blog entries. Links (all in Japanese) with number of bookmarks. If the number of bookmarks is over 300, that means quite buzzed among Japanese net-savvy, I could say.<\/p>\n