Top 10 Reasons the Japanese Love Twitter
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Mar 3, 2010 20:41 JST
- Tags: Internet, Keitai, Mass Media, Rankings, Sites, Technology, Twitter
Japanese users of popular micro-blogging and inane banter platform Twitter share the reasons they find the service interesting in a recent survey, with the service seemingly viewed as a great way to stalk celebrities in addition to its more mundane uses as a way of sharing information sufficiently trifling as to fit in its miniscule character limit.
1. You can see celebrities unmasked, in a way never seen on their blogs
2. There’s a lot of information circulating on Twitter you can’t find elsewhere
3. There may be lots of Twittering users in the same neighbourhood
4. You don’t have to worry about “writing” like you do on an SNS or blog
5. You may receive a reply from a celebrity
6. People you don’t even know will offer advice on problems you might have
7. Your followers may share new ideas which never occurred to you
8. Thoughtless tweets can cause huge arguments with lots of people involved
9. Following or being followed is an interesting system with diverse uses
10. The flow of information is much faster than with news sites or TV
The Japanese Twitter using demographic is apparently at least as concerned with falling at the feet of celebrities as it is with sharing the usual crucial details of what they just ate.
With high profile figures like Square Enix’s CEO and the only slightly less important Prime Minister of Japan now using the service (or at least deigning to hire lackeys to use it on their behalf), Twitter seems to have become well ensconced in Japan.
Twitter users not already doing are encouraged to follow Sankaku Complex on Twitter if they so desire.
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Sounds like stalking to me.I'll never understand the need to update your life constantly for the world to see.I for one don't give a shit.
YOU CAN'T BEAT THE TWEET! We dump all the bad ones and only serve the CREAM OF TWEET!
This is a great article, but only because Yuyuko is the best Touhou character.
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Twitter is awesome for instant news updates and funny conversations/spreading jokes. I like participating in the Trending Topic punchlines and other such things, or just tweeting at my friends with stupid comments. :D (You can follow me @magicalntsa, I can't promise I'll say anything good but you can at least watch me fail ~)
Twitter is great for catching news before they get HERE.
Haha, I think Twitter is great to keep up with Sankom, though!
SanCom is really the only reason I use Twitter. Because the text on the tweets is so short, and links are provided on all of them, it's easy to check there for any new articles that might catch my interest. Also older tweets can be checked if I haven't been on for a couple of days. It's really convenient.
Twitter is full of people who like to think they are so important that they feel compelled to tell people what mundane and useless activities they are doing at the moment. Nobody cares.
Nobody cares about what you think either, so stop posting.
Well it's always good to have opinions from the large & thats why I support Twitter. :3
Also....There aren't computers in Gensokyo ?
The Twitter 140 character limit is actually pretty favourable for Japan. You can get a lot more out of 140 characters in Japanese than you could ever get in English.
In the region of twice as much I think.
大体二倍くらいかな。
39 letters versus 10. That's rougly 4 times as short.
just found HideoKojima on twitter lulz
STALK STALK STALK!
Rie Tanaka likes Lady Gaga >> http://twitter.com/tanakarie/status/8592132680
"Youmu hid the pudding."
seiyuu twitter accounts
Yukari Tamura >> http://twitter.com/yukari_tamura
Rie Tanaka >> http://twitter.com/tanakarie
Emiri Katou >> http://twitter.com/Emiryun
Mai Kadowaki >> http://twitter.com/kadomaita
:3
does Nana Mizuki have one?
Anymore seiyuu accounts I could add? lol
Masumi Asano >> http://twitter.com/masumi_asano
Haruna Ikezawa >> http://twitter.com/haluna7
Kaori Nazuka >> http://twitter.com/nazukakaori
Mie Sonozaki >> http://twitter.com/Sonozaki_mie
Ai Shimizu >> http://twitter.com/aitter_smz
Ryoka Yuzuki >> http://twitter.com/yuzuruu
Haruko Momoi >> http://twitter.com/momoiktkr
Shouko Nakagawa >> http://twitter.com/strawberry2
STALK! STALK! STALK!
More! MORE ANONS!! Who's with ANON!
Very nice, anonymous.
Now we can start following- no, stalking upon them.
STALK STALK STALK
I'm more interested in what game Katou Emiri has for her Twitter background.
That's FFXI.
One of her tweets say's she's been selected to be in the FF14 beta test. o.o
I never considered playing that game but...now there's a reason to...
@21:13 03/03/2010
You meant to say ex-best friend. FIXED!
Well even Obama has an account run by hired hand.
Most celebrity account are wannabes in disguise.
Does it really count as a "disguise"?
that's why there are verified accounts, or accounts that are approved by twitter as official.
Celebrity accounts that are reported that aren't verified yet have to go through a process of paper work to prove who you are. So yes, all celebrities can be verified.
Actually twitter can't possibly verify the account of every minor (or major) celebrity alive, but you can generally tell who are phony enough and who are genuine.
Twitter is so.. bleh.
But, whatever, if you like FagSpace, Fagbook or anything like that, it's your choice... They are all a tremendous waste of time.
>.>
you can get your music better known through Myspace, thats the only reason I use it.
lmao nerd
Agreed, I've never liked any of them.
eh at least twitter is better than fagspace and fagbook.
Twitter is about as much time taking as texting.
Twitter is probably the closest thing to a hivemind current technology allows us to get.
Japanese are always on the go when you wonder around Tokyo having a Cellphone and you wonder what they are texting to.
FB is for social networking, twitter is (imo) a huge information feed (both useless and useful).
I feel urged to call it more like "Groupthink" or "Herd Mentality" than Hivemind, but not being an active user of Twitter myself, I'm afraid I lack the experience to actually identify how much of an influence the short messages can have upon the group.
All in all, Twitter is just as useless as it is useful.
FB is the best lol
Twitter is ok.
I've always thought of it as mutual stalking.
it depends... the more friends u have in particular site, the more u wanna keep using it.
For me I got lots of friend in FB but only a few in twitter...
just found out one of my better friends is following Lady Gaga ... >_>
stfu nerd
lady gaga is better than kpop
even if my comment is deleted lady gaga is still better than kpop
i lol'd
I follow LG too... I really don't know why... I also follow russel brand and various japanese friends whose tweets i can't even read.
me too X_X
poor u
plurk is better than twitter... why not use that!
lulz. I used both, plurk fails hard at what it's supposed to be doing. It feels cluttered and crude. Twitter does exactly what it's meant to do and it does it decently.
Uh, how? I've got a twitter account but I've never used it much.
It's FFXI. And she' been selected to beta test FF14. o.o
I might consider playing it now.
hurr i suck at using it so twitter fails
The "may get a reply from a celebrity" its a possibility. I recently was followed by K Dunst but I doubt she was for real.
The flow of information is faster in twitter. I write some questions in it and get quick tips and replies. ^^
It's pretty interesting how Twitter is so popular in Japan when they still don't really have phone support yet(which would make it HUGE). But this Top 10 list does make sense.
It does, it´s perfectly rational. Why wouldn´t you agree?
following in twitter= internet stalking
Twitter is just a fancy RSS reader...
Is your life really boring when you resort to stalking celebrities?
So much to fap in the internetz, so little time..
Also Top 10 reasons why I think that anyone who uses twitter should get shot for a better future.
5 is true btw, but generally only for celebrities that don't have thousands upon thousands of followers. Too hard to keep track of your non-followed tweet when it's been drowned in a flood of other non-followed tweets.
But yeah, the ones with less than 1k followers sometimes do answer back, which is nice ^^
It could also be that 140 characters of Kanji/Hiragana/Katakana is practically enough for a newspaper article.