Twitter Japan launches, with ads
 

Twitter Japan launched Tuesday evening California time, and unlike the English-language version of the popular microblogging site, it will feature ads from the get-go.

In a conversation Tuesday evening, Joi Ito of Digital Garage (http://www.garage.co.jp/en), the Japanese company Twitter tasked with some of the Japanese localization (http://blog.twitter.com/2008/01/twitter-in-japan.html), told me that Twitter decided to launch in Japan with ads from day one.
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*Source: News.com (http://www.news.com/8301-13772_3-992...tag=nefd.top)*

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