{"id":3834,"date":"2009-06-05T19:51:06","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T10:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=3834"},"modified":"2009-06-05T19:51:06","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T10:51:06","slug":"ex-livedoor-ceo-takafumi-horie-begins-twitter-and-got-2500-followers-in-5-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/ex-livedoor-ceo-takafumi-horie-begins-twitter-and-got-2500-followers-in-5-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"ex-Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie Begins Twitter and Got 2,500 Followers in 5 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Takafumi_Horie\">Takafumi Horie<\/a>, aka Horiemon, who founded livedoor, one of the Japanese major web companies, who was arrested by securities fraud in 2006, began <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/takapon_jp\">twitter<\/a> and quickly getting thousands of followers in hours today.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/takapon_jp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/twitter-horiemon-screenshot-345x400.png\" alt=\"twitter-horiemon-screenshot\" title=\"twitter-horiemon-screenshot\" width=\"345\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3835\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHis <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/takapon_jp\/status\/2037601345\">first post<\/a> [J] was &#8220;I started twitter. I&#8217;m thinking what to eat for lunch&#8221;. Later he reported <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/takapon_jp\/status\/2038794342\">he had eaten squid ink pasta and soup<\/a>.<br \/>\nAfter his original popular CEO blog on livedoor was shut down after the incident, he left the livedoor board but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ldh-corp.co.jp\/ir\/securities.html\">still keeps 17.25% stocks<\/a>. He started <a href=\"http:\/\/ameblo.jp\/takapon-jp\/\">another blog<\/a> [J] in August 2008 on <a href=\"http:\/\/ameblo.jp\/\">Ameblo<\/a> [J], which is operated by CyberAgent which CEO is his close ally <a href=\"http:\/\/ameblo.jp\/shibuya\/\">Susumu Fujita<\/a> [J].<br \/>\nAfter 10 tweets and 4,382 followers at this point, he only follows only one, another successful web entrepreneur friend <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/m_kumagai\">Masatoshi Kumagai<\/a> [J], CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmo.jp\/\">GMO Internet<\/a> [J].<br \/>\nAs Japanese twitter has not growing as fast as English one, and unlike English, celebrities are already active on (regular) blogs and have not come into twitter world much, 4,000 followers in hours is pretty fast. That shows many web users are highly interested in Horie&#8217;s words, thoughts and activities.<\/p>\n<h3>See Also:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/6456907.stm\">BBC NEWS | Business | Japanese tycoon guilty of fraud<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.japaninc.com\/node\/3944\">Takafumi Horie | Japan &#8212; Business People Technology | www.japaninc.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 hours today. His first post [J] was &#8220;I started twitter. I&#8217;m thinking what to eat for lunch&#8221;. Later he reported he had eaten squid&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/ex-livedoor-ceo-takafumi-horie-begins-twitter-and-got-2500-followers-in-5-hours\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ex-Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie Begins Twitter and Got 2,500 Followers in 5 Hours<\/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":[212,803,2113,3593,3856],"class_list":["post-3834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-ameblo","tag-cyber-agent","tag-livedoor","tag-takafumi-horie","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\/3834","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=3834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}