, Columnist
Japanese X Is Now America’s Favorite Corner of the Internet
A special spot on the internet.
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A platform that so often seems to promote division is bringing people together for a change — and Americans are learning the joy of one of the last great undiscovered parts of the internet.
US-based users of X, formerly known as Twitter, were this weekend bombarded with Japanese-language posts, thanks to AI-enabled auto-translation and what looks like a change to the feed-populating algorithm. It’s a rare crossover of X’s two biggest user bases, one that would have been impossible until recently.