{"id":16096,"date":"2011-11-25T17:57:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T08:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=16096"},"modified":"2011-11-25T17:57:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T08:57:18","slug":"twitter-japan-and-mixi-to-announce-something-on-30th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/twitter-japan-and-mixi-to-announce-something-on-30th\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Japan And Mixi To Announce Something On 30th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/twitter.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"twitter logo\" width=\"210\" height=\"49\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mixi.jp\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mixi-logo.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"mixi-logo\" width=\"162\" height=\"41\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5413\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nITMedia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmedia.co.jp\/news\/articles\/1111\/25\/news076.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> [J] today that Twitter Japan and Mixi, Japan&#8217;s largest social networking service as a Facebook-kind-of, will held a joint press conference next Wednesday, November 30 with Twitter Japan <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/21\/twitter-appoints-japans-country-manager\/\">Country Manager James Masaakira Kondo<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jameskondo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@jameskondo<\/a>) and Mixi CEO Kenji Kasahara (<a href=\"http:\/\/mixi.jp\/show_friend.pl?id=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mixi profile<\/a> [J]). It is not disclosed what will be announced there.<br \/>\nMixi is running <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/21\/mixi-echo-becomes-mixi-voice-to-chase-twitter\/\">a Twitter clone Mixi Voice<\/a> inside, but it is not so successful if you compare Twitter&#8217;s huge popularity in Japan. Although there are no clue yet, I guess it could be replacing Mixi Voice with Twitter and cooperate against their common imaginary enemy, a challenger Facebook. If it is so, Twitter may get more fruit but I am not sure what Mixi can get from it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITMedia reported [J] today that Twitter Japan and Mixi, Japan&#8217;s largest social networking service as a Facebook-kind-of, will held a joint press conference next Wednesday, November 30 with Twitter Japan Country Manager James Masaakira Kondo (@jameskondo) and Mixi CEO Kenji Kasahara (Mixi profile [J]). It is not disclosed what will be announced there. Mixi is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/twitter-japan-and-mixi-to-announce-something-on-30th\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twitter Japan And Mixi To Announce Something On 30th<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[1789,1956,2342,2952,3856,3859],"class_list":["post-16096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","tag-james-masaakira-kondo","tag-kenji-kasahara","tag-mixi","tag-press-conference","tag-twitter","tag-twitter-japan","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}