{"id":277,"date":"2008-04-23T10:50:48","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T01:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/23\/twitter-japan-is-a-language-switch-on-twittercom\/"},"modified":"2008-04-23T10:50:48","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T01:50:48","slug":"twitter-japan-is-a-language-switch-on-twittercom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/twitter-japan-is-a-language-switch-on-twittercom\/","title":{"rendered":"twitter in Japanese is on twitter.com with ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We found it. Anyone can switch your twitter to Japanese menu (and advertising!) from [Settings]->[Account tab]->[Language drop down]-[Japanese]. Or if your browser&#8217;s language settings precedes Japanese, you will see Japanese interface on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/\">twitter.com<\/a><br \/>\nHere you are,<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/23\/twitter-japan-is-a-language-switch-on-twittercom\/twitter-in-japanese\/' rel='attachment wp-att-278' title='twitter in Japanese'><img src='http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/twitter-japan-screenshot.thumbnail.png' alt='twitter in Japanese' \/><\/a><br \/>\nAt top of the sidebar, you can see an ad box, which is <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/23\/twitter-japan-launched-where\/\">planned to be backported<\/a> to English version.<br \/>\nThe JP domain &#8211; twitter.jp -, which we expected a Japanese version, is merely forwarding to twitter.com . <strike>Whether it is owned by twitter or not is unknown.<\/strike> (<a href=\"http:\/\/bb.watch.impress.co.jp\/cda\/news\/21703.html\">confirmed<\/a> that twitter Inc. owns twitter.jp [J])<br \/>\nTop page before login also can be switched to Japanese,<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/23\/twitter-japan-is-a-language-switch-on-twittercom\/twitter-top-page-in-japanese\/' rel='attachment wp-att-279' title='twitter top page in Japanese'><img src='http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/twitter-japanese-top-screenshot.thumbnail.png' alt='twitter top page in Japanese' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>What kind of ads?<\/h3>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m seeing following ads on Japanese twitter.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toyota.com\/\">Toyota<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/employment.en-japan.com\/\">en-Japan<\/a> (outplacement service company)<\/li>\n<li>two twitter guidebooks (kind of &#8220;twitter for dummies&#8221; books)<\/li>\n<li>twitter API guidebook<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Toyota&#8217;s ad takes you to <a href=\"http:\/\/gazoolab.com\/gazoo_news\/\">the page which encourages you to follow their portal Gazoo.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>See Also:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/23\/twitter-japan-launched-where\/\">twitter Japan launched \u2026 where?<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/twitterjapan\">Press Conference on Ustream<\/a> [Live]<br \/>\n[Update]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.garage.co.jp\/pr\/pdf\/080423_dg_twitter.pdf \">Press Rrelease by Digital Garage<\/a> [J]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2008\/04\/twitter-for-japan.html\">Official twitter blog (English) mentioned<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/joi.ito.com\/archives\/2008\/04\/23\/twitter_japan_is_a_go.html\">Digital Garage founder Joi Ito&#8217;s blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We found it. Anyone can switch your twitter to Japanese menu (and advertising!) from [Settings]->[Account tab]->[Language drop down]-[Japanese]. Or if your browser&#8217;s language settings precedes Japanese, you will see Japanese interface on twitter.com Here you are, At top of the sidebar, you can see an ad box, which is planned to be backported to English&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/twitter-japan-is-a-language-switch-on-twittercom\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">twitter in Japanese is on twitter.com with ads<\/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":[17,24],"tags":[1791,2132,3856],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-japan","tag-localization","tag-twitter","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","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=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}