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Twitter's First Japanese Trending Topic

By Muza-chan on Jan 23, 2010 | In Web | 42 feedbacks »

Today, Twitter got its first Trending Topic in Japanese!

The trend lasted about 5 hours (between 11 and 16 GMT) and the message was
RTされた回数だけ腹筋！さぁ来い！ translatable with “I will do sit-ups as many times as this is retweeted! Come on!“.

As usual with Twitter Trending Topics, many people were asking about how could this trend be… trending. However, being written in Japanese, this particular tweet also made the vast majority of people to ask about “what does it means". :)

Well, the message itself was funny enough and I noticed that many people were retweeting it as soon as they were learning the meaning…

I usually don’t participate in trending topics, but this time I couldn’t resist the temptation so I retweeted it…

Twitter's first Japanese Trending Topic

… and instantly received a lot of questions. Obviously I answered them as best as I could…

I noticed lately a strong growth of Japanese influence on Twitter and some of my friends confirmed it (thanks to @wanwanO and @michichan)

For those of you not familiar yet with Twitter, the Trending Topics are the most common phrases appearing in messages.

  • More info about this Trending Topic (e.g. related trends) on What the Trend

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 COBfan
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01/23/10 @ 20:08
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01/23/10 @ 20:14
 chammiue
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@Muzachan I think the first one was 10回RTされたら全裸写真うpする！ means if this will be RTed 10times, I'll upload my nude photo!
01/23/10 @ 20:15
 JapanSoc
Twitter's First Japanese Trending Topic
Today, Twitter got its first Trending Topic in Japanese.

The trend lasted for about 5 hours and the message was
RTされた回数だけ腹筋！さぁ来い！.
01/23/10 @ 20:21
 ohsweetBloG
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01/23/10 @ 20:25
 FromTheHead
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01/23/10 @ 20:36
 Eddy
Nice but it's not the first japanese trending tropic. I remember a few months back there was one I retweeted about a sale at Uniclo or something like that.
01/23/10 @ 20:52
 Squintox
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@Muzachan Japan had a trending topic before though. It was "retweet this 10 times and I will post nude pictures" or sth like that.
01/23/10 @ 20:53
 Muza-chan [Member] Email · http://www.muza-chan.net
@Eddy: I also received replies from Twitter that the first one was about a promise for a nude photo! :D
01/23/10 @ 21:01
 BlogLinkJapan
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01/23/10 @ 21:36
 Rolling_Star
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01/23/10 @ 22:04
 haejn
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01/23/10 @ 22:24
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01/24/10 @ 07:58
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01/24/10 @ 09:48
 localization
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RT @shioyama @muzachan Twitter's First Japanese Trending Topic [link] (great! But it's not the first).
01/24/10 @ 12:56
 madil80
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01/24/10 @ 23:00
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01/25/10 @ 02:17
 apakawong
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RT @Muzachan: [link] what? じゃ〜バレンタインのためRTされた回数だけ主人と続けてnightlyせくズします。どう？365日まで行かすかな？
01/25/10 @ 10:46
 barryintokyo
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01/25/10 @ 15:55
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01/29/10 @ 08:05
 It_km
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「腹筋」は英語で「sit-ups 」と言うそうです。 RT @Muzachan: Twitter's First Japanese Trending Topic [link]
01/31/10 @ 12:12
 monik
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