November 27th, 2009

Twitter Japan To Introduce Paid Premium Accounts Next January

The news of the day in social media land: Twitter is apparently going to start experimenting with paid premium accounts through its Japanese subsidiary, which has always been a bit separated from the rest of Twitter and in many ways a playground for the company (Groups, Twicco, Twitvideo.jp).

Japanese media are reporting that Twitter is going to introduce a tiered payment model and aims to charge… → Read More

November 4th, 2008

Twitter Launches Groups (In Japan)

Everything awesome always happens in Japan first. Even, it seems, when it involves an American startup. Digital Garage, Twitter’s partner with Twitter Japan, launched Twicco, a site that lets Twitter users create groups and then subscribe to them.

Loic Le Meur got a demo, and the video is below. Twicco is available now in Japanese only, other languages will be available later.

This isn’t much… → Read More