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Add a Little Sakura (the Card Captor Kind) to Twitter with Special Hashtag
posted on by Lynzee Loveridge
If you want to bring a bit of spring flare to your social media, Twitter is collaborating with Card Captor Sakura to add some cherry blossoms to users' posts until April 30. Using the hashtag "#木之本桜" (Sakura Kinomoto) will automatically add a pink flower emoji to Twitter posts.
The hashtag is part of Twitter Japan's larger "Sakurasaku Campaign" to expand the joy of cherry blossom season. The social media service also created a Moment of screenshots from the Card Captor Sakura: Clear Card anime series.
A retweet campaign will award 12 people with Card Captor Sakura goods. The retweet campaign will run until April 14.
Finally, using the hashtag "#桜" (Sakura) donations to the non-profit organization Sakura Line 311. The organization's mission statement says:
Sakura Line 311 will plant Cherry Blossom trees along a 170km line, marking the areas where the tsunami reached furthest inland. One tree will be planted every 10 meters along this line. Anywhere beyond the line will be considered a safe place for evacuation. The line will also serve as a memorial so that future generation will not forget what happened here.
The NPO was created after the devastating March 11 tsunami that hit Japan's Tohoku region.
Twitter users can also use the hashtags #桜 for Good プロジェクト, (Sakura for Good Project), #桜 (Sakura), and #さくら (Sakura), and #開花 (Blooming) to add the cherry blossom emoji. Twitter's "like" icon will also change to a blossoming animation.
Source: Comic Natalie
