Comments on: Facebook in Japan: Will It Blend?

By: amanda in japan | living in ihatov country

amanda in japan | living in ihatov country — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:07:11 +0000

[...] living experience/foreign friends, and I was pretty sure it would never be all that popular. So were a lot of other people. One, it asks users to use their real names, while Japanese prefer to use made-up user names for [...]

By: Google has global reach | comUq

Google has global reach | comUq — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:40:11 +0000

[...] user level in Japan than Twitter (one of the only countries in the world where this is the case). This article has a good breakdown on the cultural and social problems faced by the Facebook in the Japanese [...]

By: Japanese Celebrity Calls for an End to Tweeting after Demos Erupt

Japanese Celebrity Calls for an End to Tweeting after Demos Erupt — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:49:28 +0000

[...] media, and even defamation lawsuits from a tweet. In Japan, Twitter has become the rage and even Facebook is still challenged in its competition with Mixi to make deeper inroads. From my own interviews with social media influencers in the Land of the [...]

By: Turks and the Internet | STEP BACK by esma yucel

Turks and the Internet | STEP BACK by esma yucel — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:33:27 +0000

[...] banned in China or out of fashion, as GeGao writes, and Japan would have beat UK if Facebook could compete with the culturally appropriate Mixi. But I am not surprised Turkiye landed 4th place. I’m surprised it didn’t pass [...]

By: Facebook launches Places in Japan

Facebook launches Places in Japan — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:01:12 +0000

[...] have the advantage of being the dominant player – the service launched in Japan in 2008 but lags behind the dominant Japanese social network Mixi and some estimates even suggest Twitter has higher user [...]

By: Can facebook beat mixi!? « creative industries @ rikkyo

Can facebook beat mixi!? « creative industries @ rikkyo — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:57:57 +0000

[...] Can facebook beat mixi!? http://windmillnetworking.com/2010/01/19/facebook-in-japan-will-it-blend/#axzz0tdgQYj8n [...]

By: Facebook targets China, South Korea, Japan and Russia | v4v main hub

Facebook targets China, South Korea, Japan and Russia | v4v main hub — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:20:43 +0000

[...] Yes, Facebook isn’t exactly a tangible product: it’s simply a mode of communication. I know countless Koreans and Germans who use Facebook, but it’ll be a touch reckless to just assume that the Asian countries will embrace the social networking site the way we have in North America. On the other hand, Twitter has attracted more users in Japan than FB. Click here to find out why. [...]

By: Twitter Has Gone Mainstream in Japan « Social digitization

Twitter Has Gone Mainstream in Japan « Social digitization — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 17:45:57 +0000

[...] users in Japan. For example, Linkedin and Facebook have less than 1 million users in Japan. (source) The number of registered members of the local social networking site, Mixi, is 10 times greater [...]

By: Mark Kuharich

Mark Kuharich — Thu, 27 May 2010 12:17:27 +0000

Facebook in Japan: Will it blend? http://j.mp/5AoHOi

By: Sachiko Ohmura

Sachiko Ohmura — Wed, 19 May 2010 05:43:15 +0000

The most dominant SNS in Japan is "mixi." Can Facebook break it? http://windmillnetworking.com/2010/01/19/facebook-in-japan-will-it-blend/