First Tweets by SonicJPNews

News from 2017.03.22
Archived on 2019.03.05

These were the very first tweets I made with the brand new account. The set-off!

Hi community!
Here is the account where Japanese Sonic news will be retweeted, translated and posted. May not be the fastest, but correct!三🔵

— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) March 22, 2017

I decided to create this account as I noticed some information about Sonic written in Japanese are sometimes mistaken by non-JP-speakers. 三🔵

— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) March 22, 2017

So, here is my try to translate some important Japanese Sonic info into English!
I'll try to deliver as much details as possible. 三🔵

— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) March 22, 2017

For the next few days I'll focus on news about the 25th anniversary games "Sonic Mania" & "Sonic Forces". Let's see how this is gonna work!🔴

— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) March 22, 2017

As new pieces of information on upcoming Sonic games were anticipated, I was very motivated and wanted to start translating stuff right away.


But before that, I had to set my own tweeting style so people can recognize my tweets easily.

Initially, I intended to mark my tweets as follows, thinking that the round blue ball next to 三 (kanji for the number three, which should resemble speeding lines) would look like Sonic doing spin dash. And the red ball for the finito.

🔵- will be shown with this symbol 🔵- at the beginning.

The last tweet of the whole thread will be marked with a '🔴', just like this one! 🔴

— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) March 27, 2017

One thing I forgot to mension:
If a translation doesn't fit in one tweet, I'm showing it with the 三🔵(or 三⭕) at the end.
It's continuation三🔵

— ●SonicJPNews● (@SonicJPNews) March 27, 2017

As you can see in tweets from a month later following these, I noticed that many people didn't seem to read the whole thread. I realized that the symbols might not be visible from some people's phones; or I wasn't posting fast enough. IAs I had to switch my keyboard between Japanese and English, it also became more and more bothering to type these sybmols in when I was very busy or tired and still had to do translations. (Back then I was less lazy and translated tweets immediately as I found them - and that for EVERY tweet that seemed somehow relevant, even when they were more of daily comments and diaries of Sonic Team members)

All that overwork was taking too much time away from me, so I changed my tweeting style to a less frequent one. I don't translate everything if they seem very straightforward or when I don't have enough time and passion for. I hope you understand.

Also, I'm pretty sure that the blue spin-dashing Sonic at the beginning of my tweets is enough to see who is writing at one glance. Right? :)

(Additional comments from: 2019.03.09)

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