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Willis Wee · · 1 min read

Is China’s Shanda Creating a New Twitter?

Is Shanda creating a new Twitter-like service? Named Tuita (推他, loosely translated as ‘push him’), the service is currently in closed-beta phase, according to iChinastock.

The website doesn’t state when the product is going to be launched. It doesn’t even have a email registration for eager users to receive a beta invite. One thing for sure, this site belongs to Shanda as stated on the site’s fine print. Whois.net also confirmed that this new domain is registered under Nanjing Shengda Networking Co.Ltd

Shanda, known for its gaming business has recently moved into many new business portfolio including QiKe, a mobile Location-based service and Youni, a mobile IM application. Shanda has also recently invested in Codoon.com a fitness social network that sells fitness tracking hardware. With the new funding, Paul Shen, Co-founder of Codoon told us that the company will be focusing on the tracking hardware, mobile and marketing.

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Willis Wee

Founder at Tech in Asia. Aspires to build a company and product that people love.