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Cards are seriously important to Twitter. They’re what lets you see a video or summary of an article from a tweet and what Instagram removed support for last year. According to Twitter, the feature is used by more than 10 000 developers, mobile apps and websites. It makes sense ...

Sina has admitted that competition from Tencent's increasingly popular WeChat app is cutting into the time people spend on its Sina Weibo microblogging platform. It says however that it's not too worried because it already has a mass following.Speaking in a conference call after the company had announced its ...

Yesterday saw the ushering in of the Chinese New Year -- and it seems that everyone who wasn’t busy setting off fireworks at the exact moment that the year of the snake started was instead posting to social media giant Sina Weibo. Sina has revealed that the very first second ...

China's microblogging services, generically referred to as weibos are big, seriously big. The two most well-known ones, Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo, both have user numbers to rival those of Twitter. But one you might not have even heard of has just hit the 260-million user mark.That makes Netease ...

HootSuite and its owl have flown into China, adding support for the country’s hottest Twitter-like service, Sina Weibo, in its social media dashboard. This could be of great use to many brands who need to use Sina’s wildly popular Weibo for doing social marketing to Chinese consumers, as Sina Weibo ...

Chinese mega social network Sina Weibo is set for a major revamp that will see it incorporate Google+ style sharing.Chinese blog Techweb claims to have exclusive screenshots (translate) of the new version of the social network. The release, called "Version 5" was first outed as existing by Sina CEO ...

Well now, this is interesting. It turns out the real social media platform of choice when it came to the Olympic Games was China's Sina Weibo.According to data from tech stats company Hitwise, Sina's PC users alone sent nearly twice as many Olympic related messages as went out on ...

Turns out users of Chinese microblogging service Sina Weibo took to the first ever "social Olympics" with a gusto. During the opening ceremony alone, members of the social network sent 119-million messages.In an official infographic, Sina Weibo details the total number of messages sent on the opening day of ...

This is interesting. Chinese social network Sina Weibo, which has over 350-million registered users, is taking a leaf out of Twitter's book when it comes to making money.The micro-blogging platform has introduced in-line advertising. On Twitter it's called sponsored tweets, and on Sina Weibo it goes by the ...

Chinese social networks aren't exactly averse to copying their Western counterparts, but Sina's Path clone is taking it to a whole new level.The private social network, called MeYou (which translates as "close friends") sticks so faithfully to Path's iOS app design that it would be indistinguishable if it weren't ...