It's the kind of thing that in many countries might pass largely unnoticed but the launch on Thursday in Japan by Twitter of a mobile Web site could end up being of vital importance to its success here.

More than two thirds of the 91 million people in Japan that access the Internet do so from cell phones, 8 million of them exclusively from phones, so that makes mobile access a very important component for success in Japan. The vast majority of mobile access in Japan is through WAP-like services such as NTT DoCoMo's I-mode, and Twitter's previous mobile site, a generic one for users worldwide, doesn't work well on some Japanese phones. So on Thursday the company introduced a new site just for Japan.

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