Japan Apparently Prefers Twitter Over Facebook

Twitter has grown 428 percent in Japan over the past year, making it almost as popular as local Mixi.jp and more widespread than Facebook.

Facebook is slowly growing in Japan despite strong competition from the native language-based social network Mixi.jp, but apparently Twitter is doing a much better job at competing.

The 140-character-at-a-time microblogging service grew more than fourfold — that’s 428 percent, to be exact — over the past year and now has 13.2 million unique visitors, according to comScore Data Mine. That makes Twitter Japan’s second largest social network, just .3 million shy of local Mixi.jp, which has 13.5

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