Twitter now in Japan!

US based micro-blogging service Twitter has now launched a Japanese edition of the service aimed at the mobile phone crazy web users.

The company said that this Japanese edition of the web service would be a test case for them as they would be using advertising.

Project member Hiroki Eda spoke about the new developments: “The traffic boom to Twitter largely comes from Japan. Although comparatively the number of users is fewer than for large web services here, we believe there is enough room to increase users.”

Japanese web users are some of the most mobile in the world. The mobile technology here is much more advance than the rest of the world and almost everyone has a web enabled device.

About competition from the social networking services, Eda said: Twitter is quite unique in terms a service that is developing on a global scale. Other social networking services are static and updates are on average once a day. With Twitter, users can update any moment of the day. I think Twitter is complementary.”

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