SonicJPNews archive blog: 03/22/17

2017/03/22

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!



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.

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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