Facebook is the preferred social network in many countries around the world. In Japan, more Japanese preferred Twitter that featured by 140 characters.

Quoting from the confirmed source, Twitter users is about 10 million larger than Facebook’s. By the end of 2015, Twitter obtained 35 million monly activate users, while Facebook only had 25 million monthly active users then.

” Our users increased by four times in a short time in Japan,” said Shailesh Rao, vice president for Asia Pacific, Latin America and emerging markets of Twitter. In 2011, Japanese users of Twitter was under 7 million.

In the meanwhile, Twitter users decreased by one million in Q4 2015.

It seems that Facebook and Twitter are not rivals, however, these two social networking giants are busy fighting for more Advertising business. According to the latest letter that Twitter sent to its shareholders, the international mareket accounted for 35% of Twitter’s total revenue. This 35% revenue valued at $247 million which increased by 51% over the previous year.

It is important to both Twitter and Facebook to explore oversea markets. But they have to compete with Japense social networking giant Line. Twitter and Facebook both need to keep upgrading their services.

Until now, Line has 50 million monthly active users which accounts for 40% of the total Japanese population.