Comments on: Twitter not that popular in Japan

By: Ken Y-N

Ken Y-N — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:00:05 +0000

apeescape: I did think about talking about how the average celeb blog in Japan seems nothing more than a stream of mindless SMS-type messages written by a 15 year-old girl. But as I said, Twitter doesn’t support emoji…

Mukei: can’t help you there!

Adrian: That’s a good point – I remember before there was Technocrati mentioning there were more Japanese than English blogs (or posts, or whatever) but that figure was debunked as Japanese spam counted but English splogs were filtered out. Does the Twitter demographic and the iBridge Research Plus monitor demographic not intersect? Are there Japanese micro-splogging tools spewing every 2ch post onto Twitter?

By: Adrian D. Havill

Adrian D. Havill — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:26:55 +0000

That’s pretty interesting because in the past, Twitter used to brag about Tokyo compared to the rest of the world:

“At the moment, traffic on Twitter from international destinations accounts for 60% of the volume worldwide (USA: 40%). 39% from the international traffic comes from Japan, with Tokyo being the most active “Twitter city” in the world.”

Source: http://asiajin.com/blog/2008/07/17/tokyo2point0-event-twitter-japan-and-goo/

By: Mukei

Mukei — Wed, 20 May 2009 04:46:56 +0000

I found twitter totally useless and still could not find any interest in it.
I am already using facebook and mixi and could not find see any thing worthy in twitter…
if someone could help me ?

By: apeescape

apeescape — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:52:19 +0000

Twitter might take off if celebrities start using the thing. Most celebrity blogs only contain twit-level content anyways and seeing how popular some are (see: Kamiji Yusuke), I can see Japanese people checking their keitai for the latest updates on their favorite celebs. Not that they don’t do this now of course.