{"id":8237,"date":"2010-04-27T00:19:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T15:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=8237"},"modified":"2010-04-27T00:19:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T15:19:25","slug":"japanese-blog-queen-tasted-twitter-and-gave-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/japanese-blog-queen-tasted-twitter-and-gave-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Blog Queen Tasted Twitter And Gave Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ameblo.jp\/nakagawa-shoko\/entry-10509074002.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/shokotan-blog-top-399x400.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"shokotan-blog-top\" width=\"399\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8236\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nShoko Nakagawa (aka Shokotan), <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/25\/japanese-blog-queen-migrates-again-this-time-cyberagent\/\">one of the most successful Japanese celebrity bloggers<\/a>, finally started Twitter (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/shokonakagawa\">@shokonakagawa<\/a>) on February 24th with a tweet <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/shokonakagawa\/status\/9576805963\">&#8220;I begin to chirp&#8230;&#8221;<\/a> [J].<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/shokonakagawa\/status\/12455376149\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/shokotan-first-tweet.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"shokotan-first-tweet\" width=\"313\" height=\"232\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8238\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis could have been a milestone for Japanese Twitter to show the centre of the celebrity blogging moving from regular blog to microblog. However, after posting 15 tweets sparsely in 2 months, she posted that she <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/shokonakagawa\/status\/12455376149\">&#8220;gave up doing both blog and Twitter&#8221;<\/a> [J].<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/shokonakagawa\/status\/12455376149\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/shokotan-giving-up-tweet-400x191.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"shokotan-giving-up-tweet\" width=\"400\" height=\"191\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8239\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHer blogging style, which make her very unique among celebrities her early days to become popular, is to post a lot of one line entries and\/or photos taken by her cellphone, sometimes makes 50 posts per day. You may see those numbers on <a href=\"http:\/\/ameblo.jp\/nakagawa-shoko\/\">the left sidebar&#8217;s monthly archives<\/a>. Her style made a lot of followers of Japanese celebrity bloggers.<br \/>\nIn the end, what she did on blog platforms (she has been switched her blog hosting twice) is &#8220;microblogging on blog&#8221;, and if so, she could not find any advantage on Twitter, which does not have built-in photo upload\/show features and the Japanese cellphone version of which <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/15\/japan-only-twitter-mobile-page-takes-off\/\">has room to be improved<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/tag\/cyber-agent\/\">CyberAgent<\/a>&#8216;s Ameba blog, which holds over thousand celebrity bloggers including Shokotan, has been running its own <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/09\/cyberagent-launches-twitter-clone-called-ameba-now\/\">Twitter clone Ameba Now<\/a>, to hope to keep their bloggers within the Ameba sites. And this incident may be a hint that they can lean on and extend their clone, as Twitter will not be able to enhance its functionalities only for Japanese celebrity market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shoko Nakagawa (aka Shokotan), one of the most successful Japanese celebrity bloggers, finally started Twitter (@shokonakagawa) on February 24th with a tweet &#8220;I begin to chirp&#8230;&#8221; [J]. This could have been a milestone for Japanese Twitter to show the centre of the celebrity blogging moving from regular blog to microblog. However, after posting 15 tweets&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/japanese-blog-queen-tasted-twitter-and-gave-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japanese Blog Queen Tasted Twitter And Gave Up<\/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":[17,27],"tags":[204,212,450,590,808,3327,3328,3856],"class_list":["post-8237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-person","tag-ameba","tag-ameblo","tag-blog","tag-celebrity-blog","tag-cyberagent","tag-shoko-nakagawa","tag-shokotan","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\/8237","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=8237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}