Clearly that Twitter officials will implement novel projects in collaboration with the Kadokawa Group, with e-books, publications, video and overseas development in mind

The Kadokawa Group has decided to implement Twitter novel plan in cooperation with Twitter. The Kadokawa Group currently has 6 million members · monthly page view of 2.75 billion (as of December 2012) "Magical i Land"Because there is a track record of publishing content written by users, this alliance seems to be a move to compile and publish the novels written on Twitter in the same way.

[PDF file] Kadokawa Group, Twitter cooperates with the company to implement Twitter novel planning
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Kadokawa Group is a high-quality content produced by fans (UGC= User Generated Content, content generated by users on the Internet), they have "magical i Land" as a group company, and in fact created a new genre called "mobile novel", and at the present moment It has a track record of being one of Japan's largest UGC novel platforms and growing it as one of the largest girls sites, with tens of thousands of UGC novels born every month, from young talented young talents I am proactively promoting excavation and debut as a writer.

The contents of the partnership with Twitter this time will be as follows.

· When writing a novel on Twitter, we imported Tweet, analyzed sentences and formatted by social data integration analysis system "commucom.jp (Comm Commom)" under development in Kadokawa Group, and put data into Kadokawa group side system , Organized tweets of 140 characters or less in a continuous sentence format, realizing an environment that makes it easy to subscribe.

· Author writes on Twitter, subscribers can subscribe in an archived form even if they have read from Twitter's timeline.

· Excellent works in these archived works can also be published and visualized.

Also, in order to spread the experience of "writing novels on Twitter", he is also considering appointing a writer who has a proven track record as a cell phone novelist as a model writer.

This initiative became Twitter Japan's first cooperation and a novel plan to be carried out in Japan, already at Twitter headquarters project to post a novel on Twitter "Twitter Fiction Festival"In collaborating with the Kadokawa Group which has a track record of success, and has a track record of publishing UGC and a" magical i Land "used by many young women for similar projects to be developed in Japan It is dependent on.

According to the Kadokawa Group, "The novel work produced by this initiative is to support Japan's young talent to the fullest with the view of e-book conversion, publication, imaging, overseas expansion through translation, etc. , We will make every effort to contribute to the development of Japanese publishing culture and image culture ".