4/2/2026 at 2:57:02 PM
by mikhael
4/2/2026 at 5:03:24 PM
Note that Japanese X lacks a lot of the political insanity of normal X (or even Bluesky). They mostly discuss culture, hobbies, interests, and daily activity, rather than whatever outrageous thing some political lightning rod is doing at that moment.by ronsor
4/2/2026 at 4:58:16 PM
Just goes to show how much our online behavior and trends are determined by algorithms. The translate button has been there for years, but I guess some engineer flipped the "show international tweets on the timeline" button last week and this is the result.by dmonitor
4/3/2026 at 7:12:58 AM
I really wish Elon had sold off the Japanese side of X to Yahoo/Softbank. He could probably have made back everything he spent on it in the first place and then it could be its own thing.by kalleboo
4/2/2026 at 6:24:38 PM
That isn't exactly new. There had been Google translate support. They swapped in Grok more recently.The various art, anime and vtuber fans were following Japanese accounts for a long time.
by nitwit005
4/4/2026 at 12:40:20 AM
You miss the key point here. Before, you had to manually click to get the translation. Now, not only it's automatic, foreign posts are also relevant/arrive to your own feed.by tistoon
4/2/2026 at 11:11:55 PM
Has been a thing for a while and I almost exclusively follow Japanese accounts. Sometimes it's the only place that certain Japanese artists post their work.by doright
4/2/2026 at 11:18:53 PM
Me too. I deleted all of my posts, comments, likes and follows except for a couple of Japanese accounts (primarily Aya Nishitani, author of Shin Megami Tensei, who posts a lot of interesting stuff about Japanese and Western occultism sometimes in English.)by krapp
4/2/2026 at 4:14:27 PM
Can confirm Japanese X is great, the translate feature in general is a lot of fun and works incredibly well, I didn't realize the tweets were translated for the longest time.by guywithahat
4/2/2026 at 6:16:55 PM
(X as in Twitter, for those this clarification saves a click.)by altairprime