In Japan, Twitter is As Big as Facebook

Japan Twitter uses rivals Facebook in size

Jim Dougherty Contributing Writer

A report from globalwebindex this week showed that Twitter is nearly as popular as Facebook in Japan. I really don’t know what to make of this information, but here is a table describing the popularity of social networks in Japan.

While this is an interesting development, Twitter’s Japanese popularity reminded me of the 1984 international hit song “Big in Japan” by German synth-pop group Alphaville. The song itself is a tribute to the British band, Big in Japan which featured band members from the KLF, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Frankie Goes to Hollywood, but it seems as good a song as any to celeate Twitter’s success in the land of the rising sun. You might have thought otherwise, but “Big in Japan” was Alphaville’s greatest international hit, although their song “Forever Young” was covered by Laura Branigan and sampled by Jay-Z, in addition to being a staple of high school dances in the mid-eighties (although my personal favorite was Flock of Seagulls “Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)”).

(If big production isn’t your thing, check out this version of the song from Hungarian Idol):

BioTwitterFacebookGoogle+LinkedInLatest PostsJim DoughertyWriter and chief of miscellany at leaderswest.comI aspire to give people something to think about rather than tell them what to do. My favorite Google Alert is “social media research,” I am increasingly compelled by Gen Z, and I appreciate good writers agnostic of where they write. At one time I was Kred’s 12th most influential social media blogger and Klout’s most influential person on the topic of David Hasselhoff. Transplant from Seattle living in Cincinnati. Haven’t entirely adopted the local sports teams yet.@jimdoughertyWriter about social media and tech at Leaders West, I also tweet as @leaderswest.Infographic: How to optimize photos for Facebook’s News Feed http://t.co/6OkhbTRkb0 – 1 hour agoFollow @jimdoughertyJim Dougherty+Jim DoughertyLatest posts by Jim Dougherty (see all)Infographic: How to optimize photos for Facebook’s News Feed – May 19, 2013Report: Twitter is big in Japan (Facebook big) – May 19, 2013Infographic: Is the value of Foursquare overstated? – May 18, 2013Infographic: Size isn’t everything when it comes to social platforms – May 18, 2013Infographic: Keyboard shortcuts for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and G+ – May 17, 2013

BioTwitterFacebookGoogle+LinkedInLatest PostsJim DoughertyWriter and chief of miscellany at leaderswest.comI aspire to give people something to think about rather than tell them what to do. My favorite Google Alert is “social media research,” I am increasingly compelled by Gen Z, and I appreciate good writers agnostic of where they write. At one time I was Kred’s 12th most influential social media blogger and Klout’s most influential person on the topic of David Hasselhoff. Transplant from Seattle living in Cincinnati. Haven’t entirely adopted the local sports teams yet.@jimdoughertyWriter about social media and tech at Leaders West, I also tweet as @leaderswest.Infographic: How to optimize photos for Facebook’s News Feed http://t.co/6OkhbTRkb0 – 1 hour agoFollow @jimdoughertyJim Dougherty+Jim DoughertyLatest posts by Jim Dougherty (see all)Infographic: How to optimize photos for Facebook’s News Feed – May 19, 2013Report: Twitter is big in Japan (Facebook big) – May 19, 2013Infographic: Is the value of Foursquare overstated? – May 18, 2013Infographic: Size isn’t everything when it comes to social platforms – May 18, 2013Infographic: Keyboard shortcuts for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and G+ – May 17, 2013

I aspire to give people something to think about rather than tell them what to do. My favorite Google Alert is “social media research,” I am increasingly compelled by Gen Z, and I appreciate good writers agnostic of where they write. At one time I was Kred’s 12th most influential social media blogger and Klout’s most influential person on the topic of David Hasselhoff. Transplant from Seattle living in Cincinnati. Haven’t entirely adopted the local sports teams yet.

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Radio Show Host Warren Whitlock Named Top 10 Influencer by Forbes

Las Vegas: Radio Show Host Warren Whitlock, publisher of this blog and others has been named a “Forbes top 10 social media power influencer”

Radio Show Host Warren Whitlock

Whitlock, active online for the last 32 years, best-selling author, speaker and serial entrepreneur in publishing, advertising and marketing consulting and more commented “I am always happy to be acknowledged by these lists. None of these accolades suggest that there’s some competition and a winner but it’s nice to be included with colleagues that I know are helping business take advantage of the revolution in marketing that we currently call social media

“Social media tools that we have today have helped to enable a change from the 20th-century model of doing business where a centralized organization could push out a marketing message to the masses, limited only by the large budgets it took to communicate one way

“thanks to the Internet and especially these tools, consumers have the expectation that communications will be two-way conversations. Those businesses that learn to implement this in every part of their business will see their best years ever while those who continue to try to control a message and push consumers into old models will go downhill.”

Radio Show Host

Whitlock is the author of two best-selling books on social media, including the first book about Twitter and mobile marketing “Twitter Revolution: How Social Media and Mobile Marketing are Changing the Way We Do Business” and “Profitable Social Media: Business Results without Playing Games”