Comments on: Breaking: Twitter goes to Japan http://thenextweb.com/2008/01/16/breaking-twitter-goes-to-japan/ International technology news, business & culture Wed, 16 May 2012 20:46:10 +0200 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: coriburkhert (coriburkhert) http://thenextweb.com/2008/01/16/breaking-twitter-goes-to-japan/#comment-360615 coriburkhert (coriburkhert) Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:36:01 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/2008/01/16/breaking-twitter-goes-to-japan/#comment-360615 another post about twitter's relentless motion forward: http://tinyurl.com/byo9d8 another post about twitter’s relentless motion forward: http://tinyurl.com/byo9d8

]]> By: David Hurley http://thenextweb.com/2008/01/16/breaking-twitter-goes-to-japan/#comment-360614 David Hurley Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:09:33 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/2008/01/16/breaking-twitter-goes-to-japan/#comment-360614 Hi, I have just been playing with the Japanese setting on my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/hirohurl and it seems that you get 140 characters to play with. When you type in Japanese you can save space by converting Hiragana phonetic script into Chinese characters (kanji). I have a twitter "what am I doing" widget on my website and I just checked it after posting a Japanese msg, and sure enough, there was the message in Japanese script. I can see why twitter is popular in Japan as it is well set up for use on mobile phones, it is short and tweet, so it has a high cutesy-immediacy factor which the Japanese love. David Hurley Hi, I have just been playing with the Japanese setting on my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/hirohurl and it seems that you get 140 characters to play with. When you type in Japanese you can save space by converting Hiragana phonetic script into Chinese characters (kanji).

I have a twitter “what am I doing” widget on my website and I just checked it after posting a Japanese msg, and sure enough, there was the message in Japanese script.

I can see why twitter is popular in Japan as it is well set up for use on mobile phones, it is short and tweet, so it has a high cutesy-immediacy factor which the Japanese love.

David Hurley

]]> By: Erik M Jacobs http://thenextweb.com/2008/01/16/breaking-twitter-goes-to-japan/#comment-360613 Erik M Jacobs Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:31:23 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/2008/01/16/breaking-twitter-goes-to-japan/#comment-360613 So the one thing I don't get is how Twitter is planning on handling Japanese text and the whole SMS thing. Lest we forget that Japan's "mobile" is not the same mobile as the rest of the world. Messages, "web" -- it's all this proprietary (yet open) mish-mosh of iMode DoCoMo weirdness. Is a Japanese tweet going to be 160 Japanese characters? 160 unicode characters? Is using a two-byte character (Japanese kanji, for example) going to eat 2 Twitter characters? who knows. So the one thing I don’t get is how Twitter is planning on handling Japanese text and the whole SMS thing.

Lest we forget that Japan’s “mobile” is not the same mobile as the rest of the world. Messages, “web” — it’s all this proprietary (yet open) mish-mosh of iMode DoCoMo weirdness.

Is a Japanese tweet going to be 160 Japanese characters? 160 unicode characters? Is using a two-byte character (Japanese kanji, for example) going to eat 2 Twitter characters? who knows.

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