Posts Tagged: sina weibo

Sina’s microblogging service Sina Weibo has been called a Twitter clone, but it’s far more than that. China’s preeminent homegrown microblogging service has a decidedly different feel than Twitter, and despite the fact that it’s carefully censored, it has become the premier platform for important political and social discourse in China. It may not be the most profitable social media site on China’s web, but it it just might be the most important one.


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Pocket App for iOS Gets Native Sharing to Sina Weibo

The ‘read it later’ app Pocket has looked to China for some inspiration for its newest u...

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  • February 1, 2013
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China Plans Weibo Propaganda Blitz Using 2 Million Paid Commenters

An article in today’s Beijing News states that a number of propaganda department heads have ag...

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  • January 18, 2013
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Duke University Takes to Sina Weibo to Connect with Potential Students

We’ve written much in the past about how individuals and organizations outside of China are ma...

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  • January 14, 2013
  • at 10:10 am
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Chinese Internet Companies Should Stop Overseas Censorship

A few days ago, I wrote about a rant posted to Sina Weibo and spotted by Global Voices Online in whi...

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  • January 11, 2013
  • at 11:00 am
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Sina Weibo Launched an English Web Interface, But Why So Little So Late?

Yesterday we discovered that Sina Weibo appeared to have rolled out a partial English-language inter...

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  • January 10, 2013
  • at 9:00 am
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Ford Makes a Play for Chinese Drivers with In-Car Weibo App

While we’re not attending the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, we are paying close atte...

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  • January 9, 2013
  • at 1:30 pm
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Brad Pitt is Banned from China, But That’s Hasn’t Stopped Him Joining Sina Weibo Today

All the ladies who make up Sina Weibo’s 400 million registered users take note: Brad Pitt has just...

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  • January 7, 2013
  • at 2:01 pm
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Sina Weibo Breaks New Record for User Activity Over New Year’s Eve

We already know that Asia is big into microblogging the New Year, with Tokyo and Seoul dominating Tw...

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  • January 3, 2013
  • at 12:15 pm
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HootSuite Adds Weibo Scheduled Posts and More Social Marketing Features

The social media posting platform HootSuite ventured into China last October with support for Sina W...

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  • January 23, 2013
  • at 11:17 am
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China social media and social marketing in 2013

With 600 Million Social Media Users, This is China’s Web in 2013 [INFOGRAPHIC]

We noted the other day that China now has 564 million internet users and 420 million mobile web user...

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  • January 17, 2013
  • at 4:07 pm
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Angel Investor Xu Xiaoping Calls for a Freer Chinese Internet

Like most of China’s big tech investment gurus, Xu Xiaoping is on Sina Weibo. And although fel...

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  • January 12, 2013
  • at 11:00 am
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Rumor: Weibo Celebrities Like Kaifu Lee Questioned by Chinese Police

As the Southern Weekend incident continues to boil in the Chinese media, weibo celebrities like Inno...

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  • January 11, 2013
  • at 12:06 am
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Sina Weibo rolls out English version

Finally, China’s Sina Weibo Rolls Out Partial English Interface [UPDATE: Sina Confirms]

Sina Weibo has over 400 million registered users, though it’s hard to know how many of those are o...

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  • January 9, 2013
  • at 2:27 pm
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Sina Weibo Worker Says Government is Controlling Weibo Censorship, But Sina is Resisting

The wonderful folks over at Global Voices Online have made a fascinating discovery on weibo: a long ...

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  • January 8, 2013
  • at 3:06 am
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8 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week

For those of you who were still in holiday mode during the past week, we’ve done our best to keep ...

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  • January 6, 2013
  • at 5:46 pm
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China’s New Internet Law Legalizes Deletion of “Illegal” Content, Bad News for Sina Weibo

China’s tightened internet controls were passed into law earlier today. As well as requiring broad...

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  • December 28, 2012
  • at 7:38 pm
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