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Twitter appeal wanes in parts of Japan, S Korea

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By YOUKYUNG LEE

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Well this writer is from Korea, but it reads just like those sour grapes articles that said that the iPhone would never sell well in Japan and that Facebook would never work over Mixi. Doesn't Japan have a number of records in tweets in various categories?

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A lot of people in eastern Asia area switching from Twitter to LINE, an instant messaging application that developed by Naver in South Korea that has become quite popular. Naver is making a major push to make LINE more popular in the English and Spanish speaking communities.

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I think the writer is spot on. Line is king now in Japan, and Twitter is never going to pass Weibo for Chinese users even if it is allowed by the Chinese government which I can't see happening.

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Twit-ter. As Betty White once commented about so-called social media, "Get a Life!"

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Twitter in Japan is a bit of a nightmare - so many people hiding behind anonymity to simply attack people and "debate" - but more like passive-aggressively throwing insults at each other. But I still think that it's a very important social tool. You can potentially influence a lot of people using Twitter.

Twitter in Japan is interesting, because you can put so much into the 140 character limit when using Japanese. It's also interesting because often times it bypasses the "tatemae" and get straight into the people's "honne". The honne in Japan, as seen on Twitter and 2chan, is very very ugly. There's just so much pent-up anger, resentment and aggression that you don't usually see on the surface. In Japan, people are forced to act polite, which means that people are not really polite at all if they have to act polite.

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