Ayu has a Twitter now?!
 

This translates to "Actually, Ayu has made an account already." I believe...

....

WHAT?

i am going to get a twitter account right now

lolwut? O_O

yeah lol, brb to make an account

I read that a few hours ago, heh. Most translation sites I went to implied she had indeed created an account, so... *shrugs*

I'll definitely add her and pimp her out if her account name is ever released her, though =D

really?... hmm...well.. if it's true, it's all good~ :)

**** I HOPE SO

is this really true?? *o* :O

It's probably a personal account though, right?

Who posted that anyway?

Max Matsuura.

If anyone else said it, I'd probably have dismissed it as total BS.

yeah, I saw that :D

I just can't wait for follow her~ :3

Ooh that's pretty legit. It'd be great if it was for fans and we could know what's going on a lot more often than from TA messages.

Wow!!!! Hopefully Avex won't find a way to make it a pay-only service :P

WOW!! I made a Twitter to follow gaga... then I didn't do use it again... lol!! (:

i wanna follow ayu! :tipsy

anyway.. i still can't read Japanese text EVEN if i follow AYU

I hope they don't!!!! ¬¬
D:

if this is true...i will have to make an account on Twitter~~~

Oh really.....

Ayu Twitting??

OMG I HOPE IT'S TRUE!!! Mr. Matsuura just has to give the link now :D

If this true, I'll be fainted of happiness xDD~
I've been tweeting from January causes of many bored things on facebook, and max said that ayu have been make an account already? Great!! *blink eyes*

OMG WE NEED THE LINK NOOOOOOOOOOW! LOL

sorry, but I won't believe it until there's some real evidence

CKD, MAX MATSUURA (her manager/producer/whatever) is the one who said it.

Okie. This sounds good. I saw his tweet too. But it feels like ayu made the account, but sort of neglect it.
I'll go search for her, but I doubt she will tag it under her real name... Or better yet, ask max to post the link!!! Then I won't end up finding fake account

it's probably www.twitter.com/ayu but they just haven't done anything with it. if you'll notice...they did the same thing with youtube. we all know the channel was just revealed but if you look at the user info, the account was created in like 2005.

I've already ask Max Matsuura about her account name, but it seems that he's working so he's not tweeting anything back.

If that's true, I'll definitely follow her and tweets supportive words! (maybe we could ask her to axe Shimoko this way lol) :D

The way that Max worded it is indeed how someone described it before, she has created a twitter, but is not using it.

really?!! XDDDDDDDD

...since when is the possibility that ayu made a twitter account "news"? smh

Yes.

And Ayu getting a YouTube channel was news, so why wouldn't this count?

is there a link to her twitter then? ...

I won't then :D

Eeeeeek!!!! *runs to make a Twitter account* This is so exciting! :heart

omg!!! :luv2

I noticed that too. September 2005. It's quite long time ago but we just know it this year. She seems using that account all this time but not officially.

I hope Ayu's twitter will be official so I can create my twitter account. Or else, waiting for her to say it by herself.

REALLY?!?! wow...i want to follow her...

Why is everyone joining Twitter to see Ayu's twitts, or whatever? You don't need an account to view do so. I suppose maybe the update you if you actually have an account? Well, I've never followed anyone's Twitter before, and I'm not starting with Ayu. But, thanks for posting. And who is Shimoko?

OMG?? really?? o.O

what's the account name??

Some people need to be followed to see their tweets like masatomatsuura's, haha.

Shimoko is Kazuyoshi Shimomura, the photographer behind her last 2 years of photoshoots before being replaced by the god-like ND CHOW.

ohh Ayu. facebook, the next one.. LOL

LOL ......

Came back to AHS just in time~~ XDDD

I know the YT account was created way back then, but I don't think Twitter was even around then =/

And anyone could be twitter.com/ayu . In fact, it could even be http://twitter.com/ayumi_hamasaki .

facebook...next one...==..
i think she would explain in the ta diary...
waiting...

Most likely, Max brought it up because many people were asking him about it. Unless she starts using it, I doubt she'll bring it up on TA. Has she even mentioned her YouTube account on TA?

Man... My stalker skills are failing, you'd think Mika John would make way for her... EVERYONE GO LOOK AT ALL HER FOLLOWERS AND PEOPLE SHE FOLLOWS! XDDDD http://twitter.com/mikajohn

As far as I can tell, Mika's not following Ayu on Twitter.

when/if ayu starts posting, I hope theres a translater here xD

I've actually been going at this for an hour now LMAO! She's pretty well hidden xDD~ I'll let y'all know if I find something ahahaha! (I'll probably give up soon)

There is something about twitter on TeamAyu, but no account link, just a tag we shall use to cheer Ayu up.
It´s also up on yahoo music page:
http://event.music.yahoo.co.jp/hamasaki/

if this is true i got to create an account now just to follow Ayu haha~

Great news! :D

Did your letter include something other than text, or was it just a full A4 page of text..?

woww this is exciting!
so cool!!
Max is going to meet up with Ayu next week for a big feast, then he will tell Ayu about Twitter..LOL~

As of a few minutes ago my impossible search is over... But atleast I found alan's page through Kazuhito Kikuchi xDDD!

Twitter should pay ayu for all the new members that are thanks to her xD

(me being one of them :innocent)

SERIOUSLY ????
OMG I'll stalk her 24/7 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :thud

Wow, how cool!

Reading hundreds of letter didn't sounded fun :laugh

I'm so gonna follow her... what's the twitter link ?

what's the point of paying for TA if she started using a twitter account? :laugh

The blog is not why people join TA. It's for tickets and the chance to see her perform at TV shows and such, haha.

^ Since we can only read ~ 140 words of Ayu ~ on Twitter and we can read longer posts if we pay for TA ? :laugh

maikaru's right. It's more like "Actually, ayu also has a Twitter account." instead of anything along the lines of "ayu made an account and is gonna use it".

haha~ if she did that, imma open an account now~

I don't know if this is the real one but here
http://twitter.com/ayumi_hamasaki
she didn't write anything, maybe that's why no one knew about it

there's a new post on Ayu's official website..
http://www.avexnet.or.jp/ayu/jp/news/100409.html

they write something about Twitter but I can't read Japanese..

It's the Twitter hash tag for the Yahoo!MUSIC Live interview next week.

reading through max's twitters I found this:

May be soon. RT @wgwijaya: @masatomatsuura why ayu dont have a twitter?? tell her to make a twitter ^^ 6:41 AM Apr 7th via Echofon

i need to remember my Twitter password lol
anyway, as soon as i Twit back i will follow Max for more news... hopefully Ayu will really get an account too


Thanks for telling ('_')v

ooo!! hope it comes on soon and she says some stuff in English

i hope it will be for International fans and that she writes in english

i tweeted Max yesterday asking has he met Ayu recently..
he replied saying that he will meet Ayu next week and will have a big feast...

*fingers crossed* that would be awesome =D

ah ah the payperview era is finished!

wooooooooooow yay

I think it translates as:

'Actually, Ayu is also making an account.'

He uses the verb 'tsukuru' (to make) as 'tsukutte' and I was taught that if it's 'te' form it's kind of like 'ing' So in reality she hasn't made an account yet, if I'm right xD Of course I haven't studied Japanese in 3 years and don't understand the way Japanese people speak most of the time XDDD

So for this Ayu event... they're using Twitter as a way to ask her questions?

Wow, that's really cool! :D

It seems like the event is starting at 21:00 (7PM) on April 14th... heh, that'd be really cool if some English questions were brought up.

The thing is that it's highly likely that no one outside of Japan (or who is good with procies) will be able to actually watch the live interview talk stream via USTREAM. I guess we'll see next week, but if it's like last year's, it'll be mainly Japanese and some Chinese viewers, oiii.

The Twitter thing will be used for ~real time~ responses from fans, while questions will come from some sort of Chiebukuro-Yahoo site, haha. You can see the people's questions so far if you click the link!

what's this event? where was this mentioned?

I feel like she'd be a spammer on Twitter. Just posting stuff all the time. Anyway, I'm going to check right now.

I already have a Twitter account, trying to follow her, but I'm also following Max Matsuura himself, Mika Noguchi, and all kinds of others, including airlines and computer/technology-related companies...

It is a live talk about the album that will last about an hour.

Ayu was on it during NEXT LEVEL.

It's in the Schedule thread in the Music News Forum.

^thanku ^_^

Funny, because I wondered about Ayu getting a Twitter account. And seriously considered getting one just to follow her. XDD

ayu having a twitter would be awesome, I'd just stalk all day

We have to be careful if Ayu ever has a Twitter account - we're not supposed to bug her! It's just going to irritate her, and it would be in a similar fashion if you do it to Max Matsuura, Mika Noguchi, Oprah Winfrey, the United States CDC, real companies, etc.

his is a great news

I'm following tons of j-musicians on twitter (and have had plenty of short conversations with producer Tsutchie), my "following" list is a who's who of j-musicians using the service (and it's funny, they have less followers than you'd expect since twitter just hasn't really caught on yet over there, not compared to the USA anyway)... having Ayu be part of that list would just be so awesome.

that'd be really cool :)

hrmm, you know i never use twitter, but if i could follow all my jpop musicians it would be so worthwhile.

but as i was typing that i realized i wouldn't be able to read and understand their posts anyway. :(

Yeah, even if you've learned japanese, they get pretty casual on there.

The japanese speakers who tweet are so lucky though, you can say WAY more with 140 japanese characters than 140 english ones.

oh i feel so left out!

:cry

I read quickly through the letters on the flight down to London, and we skimmed the text of the letters outside the hotel to be sure that the content was not inappropriate.

The reason I remember that letter, is because your letter was quite different from the other letters... and there were people in London who thought that your letter, or part of it sould not be included in the book.

Edit: Hmm, you deleted all your posts truehappiness? :eyebrow I did not double post xD

Nah, only my traveling companion from norway, and zoomzoom. But, if we found content that was not entirely appropriate, we asked the rest of the guys outside the hotel if we were to leave it in the book or not. There was not much inappropriate, only 2-3 letters, plus a few that came at the very end without being controlled by zoomzoom.

^^i agree. but don't sweat it. it's still somewhat anonymous. but i guess it really doesn't make much difference... but in the end the important thing is that ayu has your letter and that's what counts!

also, Maxker shouldn't be completely bashed. he meant well skimming through the letters. what if there really was something inappropriate. i would've felt so sorry for ayu and it would've made us international fans look really bad.

It was not as if we read those letters out loud for the other fans in London, only excerpts of what was inappropriate. And with inappropriate, I mean things like mentioning AHS (downloads), say they will kill certain people or call her nasty things due to lack of gigs outside of Asia ect. Fortunately there were not many letters that came in this category ^^

I would not be responsible for giving Ayu something with that type of content. As you say jean-baptiste, it would've made us look really bad and disrespectful.

I've been skimming these posts, and I'm wondering, when/how will we know what ayu's twitter will be named?
Ayumihamasaki or something?
I'm just afraid of imposters, haha~!
I'd love to ask Ayu some questions!

Just gotta get ready to stalk the closest people around Ayu and see who seems most like her ;D

OMG I WANT HER ACCOUNT NAME!! WANNA FOLLOW!!! <333 Cannot wait for them to release it.