[News] AKB48 now on Google+

[natme]

Here is a link to the AKB48 page so you can add the members
http://www.google.com/+/project48/

Due to Google's rules, only members that are 18 and over have accounts. A few of the members already have posts and Acchan did a hangout about an hour ago with some lucky fans.

[Amplifier]

Circle all the idols!

Just waiting for my chance to get into a hangout with HONMAYAN

[+u+u]

Added only Sae and Sayaka~ Maybe Yuko later, we'll see About the possible hangouts... I CURSE TIME ZONES! 

[ellveetrapz]

http://natalie.mu/music/news/60938


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https://plus.google.com/u/0/102861211420357915358#102861211420357915358/posts   


add this on your circle   

[pastil]

^
Already added Ayarin.

I added 20 girls, 9 from SKE and 10 from AKB + Sayanee. Not much activity yet. Sakiko and Mariyannu posted cute pics!

I wonder how big this will be in the end since some girls also have Ameblo/Twitter too.


Underage members?
https://plus.google.com/106758056094193397775/posts

[Rayle]

Following 17 girls. I had a nice and tidy feed before that is now swamped by the AKB content.  Wish SDN could have followed suit, the old Team K blog videos with Noro and Meetan joining the Sayaka and Yuko shenanigans were amazing. 

[Serafis_CZ]

I hope girls are going to be active there.

Video from oficial AKB48 YT channel:

[ellveetrapz]

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i can't comment on g+ why ! 

help me !! 

[YKT]

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i can't comment on g+ why ! 

help me !! 

Lots of folks are complaining of glitches.    Hopefully the tech guys will fix the problems soon. 

Meanwhile, here's the followers as at 2011/12/09 ~ 16:49~

1.大島優子 （27,799人）
 2.前田敦子 （26,760人）
 3.篠田麻里子 （26,265人）
 4.高橋みなみ （25,225人）
 5.指原莉乃 （24,236人）
 6.柏木由紀 （24,165人）
 7.小嶋陽菜 （23,555人）
 8.板野友美 （20,943人）
 9.横山由依 （20,070人）
 10.高城亜樹 （18,706人）
 11.北原里英 （18,255人）
 12.峯岸みなみ （17,934人）
 13.宮澤佐江 （17,068人）
 14.河西智美 （16,339人）
 15.松井玲奈 （15,454人）
 16.倉持明日香 （14,796人）
 17.増田有華 （14,657人）
 18.秋元才加 （14,630人）
 19.佐藤亜美菜 （14,033人）
 20.梅田彩佳 （13,715人）
 21.大家志津香 （12,623人）
 22.宮崎美穂 （12,613人）
 23.菊地あやか （11,991人）
 24.松井咲子 （11,936人）
 25.佐藤すみれ （11,881人）
 26.仲川遥香 （11,845人）
 27.仁藤萌乃 （11,613人）
 28.平嶋夏海 （11,477人）
 29.島田晴香 （11,342人）
 30.石田晴香 （11,047人）
 31.山本彩 （11,024人）
 32.片山陽加 （10,790人）
 33.高柳明音 （10,460人）
 34.渡辺美優紀 （10,081人）
 35.秦佐和子 （9,839人）
 36.仲谷明香 （9,805人）
 37.野中美郷 （9,780人）
 38.仲俣汐里 （9,748人）
 39.中塚智実 （9,709人）
 40.松原夏海 （9,667人）

AKB48 groups launch Google+ project to interact with fans
Posted on December 8, 2011 by tokyograph
 
Image from: Mantan Web

Idol group AKB48 celebrated their 6th anniversary today (December , and they took the occasion to hold a press conference to announce a new project. Along with sister groups SKE48 and NMB48, AKB48′s members have created accounts on Google’s social networking service Google+. They will use the service to communicate with their fans worldwide, as there are plans to have their posts translated into at least five languages: English, Chinese, Korean, Thai, and Indonesian.

The project includes at least all of the official teams and research students for AKB48, SKE48, and NMB48, though HKT48 and JKT48 have also been mentioned as part of the project. Although Google+ currently is limited to people at least 18 years of age, the underage members have been lumped together under the “Heyakko” account, which will post on their behalf.

The members plan to make use of Google+’s Hangout feature, which is a built-in group voice/video chat feature. This allows members to interact in real time with fans around the world. Hangouts currently allow for 10 people in a group at a time, so there are plans to have individual members to have chat sessions with 9 fans at once.

The members are already posting plenty of photos and videos to their accounts. They also plan to use the service to post live from their events and concerts, including their “AKB48 Kouhaku Taikou Uta Gassen” on December 20 and their “AKB48 Request Hour Setlist Best 100 2012″ on January 19-22.

Google+ has a project page with links to all of the individual AKB48, SKE48, and NMB48 accounts.

Sources:
Natalie
Mantan Web

http://www.tokyograph.com/news/akb48-groups-launch-google-project-to-interact-with-fans/#more-22859

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i can't comment on g+ why ! 

I think the number of posts from the girls, and the huge number of comments is really putting G+ to the test atm. I just had to click "post" a few times, to get my comments posted, though.

[jafeijai]

About the possible hangouts... I CURSE TIME ZONES! 

Indeed D:

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i can't comment on g+ why ! 

help me !! 

From the official page:

現在、AKB48メンバーの投稿へのコメントが一部書き込みづらい状況が発生しております。現在、原因を調査中ですので、お待ちくださいますようお願い致します。

"Right now, there has been an outbreak of difficulty when posting some comments on posts from AKB48 members. Please wait as we are currently looking into this."

[YKT]

[deH]

seems they finally fixed the problem '-'

now I can comment normally... and there is much more comments...

I didn't see more hangouts, did you? lol I think a lot of fans tried to participate and just ended installing that damn plug-in that made everybody fail on timming to get into Acchan's hangout xD I was one of them :p

why so few people can participate? ;_;

[boykun]

Finally managed to get some comments in. Good to know it was only some overload hiccups and not some blockage thing Seems like I can't quickly comment on a new post, though, probably because a hundred other people are trying to do the same. That makes joining a hangout near impossible for me.

Feels good to comment

Man these girls postwhore like bosses. Their notification page must be a nightmare.

[natme]

Finally managed to get some comments in. Good to know it was only some overload hiccups and not some blockage thing Seems like I can't quickly comment on a new post, though, probably because a hundred other people are trying to do the same.

It looks like there is a 500 comment limit on Google+ though, so you will have to get your comments in quickly. I wonder how they are going to handle the translations since that limit is reached very quickly on posts by Acchan and other popular members.

edit: It may only be 500 comments from people not in their circles since there are a few posts with more than 500.

[YKT]

Until now, some of young members have been able to post to Google+
only via the "Heyakko" (age 13-17) page...

…but as of today,
every single one of the 109 members of AKB48/SKE48/NMB48/HKT48
(age 13-17) will have their very own Google+ profile!

Add this circle,
and you'll get to see updates of newly joined AKB48 members
in your stream!

Please enjoy.


The AKB48 Management Team

Add this https://plus.google.com/u/0/117147321771860727748/posts/Hwr7Ab2zGg2

[YKT]

Google+ senbatsu 7: Akicha, Ayarin, Haachan, Harugon, Harukyan, Sakiko, Nakamatta.
1 hour ago
AKB48 Journal

Apparently, they will be featured in an upcoming Weekly Playboy magazine spread

[Rayle]

Sakiko posted a video of the photoshoot where they were asking which bikini was better. 

[YKT]

Excerpt of

http://thenextweb.com/asia/2012/02/06/google-explains-how-celebs-and-politics-are-driving-google-growth-in-asia/

Google has made a concerted push to gain visibility through the acquisition of high profile users, and that same methodology has been applied to Asia. The most pertinent example was the recent collaboration with Japanese super girl band AKB48 in December.

Hayward reveals that the girls, and there are 48 of them in the group, have accumulated more than 3.5 million followers collectively and “have been quite impactful about getting people to engage with Google+” in Japan, and other parts of Asia where they are popular.

Hayward cites the example of Yuko Oshima, whose 143,645 followers make her the most followed AKB48 member on Google+). Although she has considerably less followers than Britney Spears (1.6 million), Oshima’s fan engagement is considerably greater than the US popstar’s.

As stats from allmyplus show, the average post from Oshima receives more reshares than that of Spears (by 26 to 21), more than four times as many +1s (932 to 226) and more than five times as many comments (475 to 91).



Though Twitter is well established in Japan, which holds Twitter’s record for tweets per second, and Facebook is showing signs of growth there, it took both services some time to gain traction. Hayward says Google+ has made a promising start to life there.

With the AKB franchise set to expand across Asia — there is already a ‘sister’ group in Jakarta, and two others in Japan — Hayward is optimistic that the band will help Google+ bring more users on board along the way.

http://thenextweb.com/asia/2012/02/06/google-explains-how-celebs-and-politics-are-driving-google-growth-in-asia/

[winner]

On March 4th, popular idol group AKB48 announced their ‘Google+‘ (Gugutasu) senbatsu members.

16 members whose activities stood out on the social networking site, ‘Google+’, were chosen as the senbatsu members.

These members include Matsui Sakiko, Takajo Aki, Katayama Haruka, Nakamata Shiori, Ishida Haruka, Suzuki Shihori, Tanabe Miku, Kuramochi Asuka, Nakagawa Haruka, Kitahara Rie, Yokoyama Yui, and Fujie Reina of AKB48, Matsumura Kaori and Matsui Rena of SKE48, Yamaguchi Yuki and Yamamoto Sayaka of NMB48.

The 16 members will star in Google’s upcoming CM and will also be in charge of the CM songs. The song and its music video will be featured in AKB48’s next single.

http://www.tokyohive.com/2012/03/akb48-announces-google-senbatsu-members/