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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, Card Captor Sakura to add some cherry blossoms to s' 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 s 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


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