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Twicco.jp: is Japan already seeing the future of Twitter?
When it comes to potential new features for Twitter, the Japanese version has always been a testing ground. For example, Twitter in Japan is supported by ads, which haven't hit the US yet (and nobody seems sure if they ever will!). While I'm just fine using Twitter without ads, we'd love to see an English version of Twicco, which basically adds group support to Twitter. You can test it out for yourself already, if you know Japanese or use something like Google Translate.On Twicco, you can create a group account, and members can post messages that will then be distributed to the account's followers. The idea of a community account seems to add a lot to Twitter, especially for people whose normal accounts mix business and personal posts. Businesses could also benefit from using a community to open up a dialogue with their customers. That way, the rest of us don't have to read the ' tech support discussions and feature requests our friends are sending to companies as @replies: they can post them to the company community instead.
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Erkka said 9:45AM on 11-11-2008
So it's basically like channels in Jaiku or Rejaw. So nothing new as Twitter is still lagging way behind the competition in terms of features.
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Jay Hathaway said 9:46AM on 11-11-2008
Maybe so, but others are lagging behind Twitter in terms of anyone actually using them.