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I sometimes tweet in Chinese as it's even more succinct than Japanese. I don't actually write Chinese, but some tweaking to and fro in Google Translate means I can come up with <140 characters in pidgin Chinese that when machine-translated back into English produce intelligible English sentences of 300 letters or more. Unfortunately it doesn't seem possible at present to tweet e.g. http://is.gd/xxxxx forwarded to http://translate.google.com/#zh-CN|en|試験 as the 漢字 don't make it across, but it's only a matter of time until someone produces an app to do this automatically, and thereby effectively smashes the 140 character limit.
Twitter in Japanese, and the vehicle of communication
Twitter is totally "in" in Japan. Everybody who matters are doing it, except for a few "old media types" who still have not figured out how to stick that blue-and-black "t" button on their web-version newspaper articles. Japanese twitter-stars, such as @chikawatanabe and @hisamioh, have mention...
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