Continuing its push to reach more people in the Japanese market, Twitter announced today that it has partnered with Yahoo Japan in a deal that would see its messages cross over to Yahoo users: Today, we are excited to announce that Tweets will be integrated into various services on Yahoo! Japan, beginning with real-time search results (see: realtime.search.yahoo.co.jp). This partnership will allow Twitter content to reach even more users in Japan, one of our biggest international markets. This comes hot on the heels of last month’s announcement that Twitter had struck ...
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Aug 2 2011
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Terrorists Threaten Indonesia Through Twitter
Someone claiming to represent an Islamic group in Indonesia is using Twitter to spread bomb threats in Indonesia. This began on Monday, and has continued up until today. The Twitter account @alhamazah was threatening to bomb the JW Marriott Hotel on August 17, 2011, which coincided with the celebration of Indonesian independence day. This hotel was twice a target of bombings in the past. Here’s the translated tweet : Spread this! We will bomb JW MArriott Jakarta on August 17, 2011 for the third time! Threats were also sent to some media ...
Jun 13 2011
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Sina Weibo Testing Enterprise Accounts
We recently wrote a report about how Sina Weibo would soon be rolling out an English version, making it possible for non-Chinese speaking users to use the popular microblog. And today we’re hearing news from Techweb about the service expanding into yet another sphere. Sina Weibo’s Enterprise Edition is currently being tested in private beta, and is now visible on at least one live account that we know of. There’s an introductory page explaining the new service at a.weibo.com/proc/productintro.php, and questions related to the service can be addressed to @qiyeweibo This enterprise ...
Jun 10 2011
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Social Commerce FlutterScape Receives $750,000 in Investment
FlutterScape, which describes itself as a cross-border social commerce platform, has just closed its latest round of funding at 60 million yen ($749,000). The funding round was led by NVCC, with NGI group and Innovation Engine also joining as investors. Prior to this investment, Flutterscape secured its first seeding round at 25 million yen ($310,000) last August from Digital Garage, Net Price, and Aucfan. Flutterscape aims to deliver Japanese culture abroad by leveraging on foreign residents in Japan as sellers. There are over 1,500 sellers and 7,000 customers on the social ...
Jun 9 2011
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How Influential Are You On Sina Weibo?
There are many analytics sites to measure influence on Twitter and now, Sina Weibo has one for its users too. On the analytics page you can measure and track: Your influence level Which categories of interest your fans are from (for example Internet, entertainment) Who are your most loyal fans Your fans’ growth rate The categories of interest of the people who you are following Your most popular tweets (weibos) sent so far Unfortunately my influence level is at a low 16 compared to my friends on weibo. @klukoff, for example, has a score of 188. The score ...
Jun 7 2011
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Beware Twitter, Sina Weibo is Launching an English Interface This Year
From an English mobile app, to a soon-to-be-launched full-fledged English microblog, Sina is moving full speed ahead. Sina told Reuters that it has more than 10% of its Sina Weibo users based overseas and is looking to attract more international users by introducing an English microblog by the end of this year. Despite aiming to to serve only the Chinese market to date, Sina Weibo still managed to attract a whopping 140 million users. In contrast, Twitter has about 200 million users with 70 percent of its users based out of ...
Jun 6 2011
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Chinese Microblogs More Than Just Twitter Clones
In 2006, Twitter introduced a new way people communicate and interact. In the following year, the same concept was brought to China by a few Twitter-like services, Fanfou being one of the most influential. However, microblogging did not really catch on in the country until 2009, when most of China's mainstream websites introduced their own microblog services. We've written extensively about a number of these 'weibo' over the past year or two, most notably Sina and Tencent. While they are undeniably following Twitter’s lead, each of China's microblogs has at least ...
Jun 5 2011
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‘India Against Corruption’ Launches Twitter App
To inspire an online movement, you need people to help spread your message. The brains behind 'India Against Corruption' understand this well, and they have introduced a Twitter application yesterday to help spread words even farther. The Twitter application does only one thing: It automatically retweets selected tweets and Facebook updates from 'India Against Corruption' through your Twitter . In other words, you need to place full faith and trust in the 'India Against Corruption' team to use the app. It is a pretty creative way to garner support and spread words though. Within ...
Jun 4 2011
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SingMood Measures Singapore’s Mood Using Tweets
SingMood aggregates tweets located in Singapore and examines them for “happy” and “sad” keywords in real-time. Data from Twitter is aggregated and the overall mood is displayed on a “mood-o-meter” which refreshes with every tweet. SingMood also shows a graph displaying the number of happy and sad tweets by-the-hour so you get an idea of when people are happier or sadder during the course of a day. Users can also click on the happy/sad “bar” to see who tweeted a particular tweet. Anol Bhattacharya, CEO at GetIT told us that the company created ...
Jun 3 2011
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Government Orders Twitter User To Tweet 100 Apologies For Defamation
What is the appropriate punishment for someone who is found guilty of slandering on social media? The Malaysian court decided to sentence one defendant to apologizing on social media. Fahmi Fadzil (@fahmi_fadzil), described as a respected commentator on social issues, got exactly that penalty after he wrote on Twitter about his pregnant friend who was allegedly ill-treated by her company, BluInc Media. Although Fadzil subsequently tweeted his apology a few hours later, BluInc still went on to press charges against Fadzil. After three months, the court decided to punish Fadzil as ...
Jun 1 2011
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Indonesian President Reacts To ‘Defamation’ in Social Media
Recently the Government of Indonesia has endured much criticism on social media platforms like Twitter, blogs, and even in text messages. During the past week the political world in Indonesia was turned upside-down by the emergence of a specific SMS text containing allegations of corruption against the nation’s government. The message originated from a Singapore-based number from someone claiming to be Nazaruddin, an Indonesian political figure currently involved in a corruption case who has fled to Singapore. The text message was sent to Indra Piliang, a political opponent of President ...
May 31 2011
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The Most Influential Indians in Social Media
Much has been said about social profile ranking services, which determine how much “influence” is held by a given user on Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin. Two of the most respected services are Klout and PeerIndex. Both have slightly different approach to calculate one’s social influence, which you can read about here and here. Pinstorm, India’s leading digital marketing agency released a unique list today: The most influential Indians on social media which ranks Individuals by taking the average of Klout and PeerIndex scores. Within the list, Bollywood actor Salman Khan came out ...
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