2012 has been a big year on the Japanese social-media scene | The Japan TimesTwitter continues to ride high. Facebook has grown a lot, but newcomer Line seems set to overtake it. Social game companies Gree and Mobage have shifted their overseas expansion into high gear. And Mixi finally admits that it needs to try harder to understand what its members want. In this month’s column, we look back at the big battles fought in the Japanese social-media scene over the past year.
