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China’s Great Firewall now censors WhatsApp and Winnie The Pooh

China has had a particularly interesting week in digital thus far. In the run up to the country’s Communist party reshuffle taking place later…

500 reposts on Chinese social media could land you in jail

Popular figures on Chinese social media could inadvertently find themselves in serious trouble with a new law passed in the country. According to Reuters…

Sina Weibo now claims 50m active users a day

China’s Twitter equivalent and social networking super power Sin Weibo claims that it now has around 50-million active users a day. The figure, which…

Sina Weibo users can now post to Facebook… unless they’re in China

This is interesting. Anyone even vaguely familiar with the Chinese online scene knows that Western social networks like Twitter and Facebook are banned in…

Sina Weibo follows Twitter’s lead, introduces cards

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…

Sina says WeChat will dig into Weibo usage, but reckons it has critical mass

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….

Netease: China’s forgotten Weibo cracks 260m user mark

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…

Revamped Sina Weibo set to come with Google+ style sharing

Chinese mega social network Sina Weibo is set for a major revamp that will see it incorporate Google+ style sharing. Chinese blog Techweb claims…

While everyone was talking Twitter, Sina Weibo took gold in the social Olympics

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 went crazy for Olympic opening ceremony: 119m messages sent

Turns out users of Chinese microblogging service Sina Weibo took to the first ever “social Olympics” with a gusto. During the opening ceremony alone,…

Sina Weibo copies Twitter, takes ‘sponsored tweets’ route

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…

Sina’s MeYou looks to clone Path’s success

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…

Flipboard gives China a peek behind the ‘Great Firewall’

This is interesting. Very interesting. The launch of Flipboard for Android in China is giving users in that country access to Twitter. As The…

China’s Renren signs deal with Japanese mobile gaming company DeNa

Chinese Facebook clone Renren and Japanese mobile gaming company DeNa have signed a deal in what seems to be a bid by the latter…

Sina Weibo drives censorship on Tiananmen Square anniversary

Twenty three years ago today, the Tienanmen Square Protests were put down in bloody fashion by Chinese authorities. Given that the government refuses to…

Sina Weibo’s new user rules come into effect

China’s massively popular social network Sina Weibo’s new user regulations come into effect today. The rules, which effectively censor free speech were announced a…

Sina Weibo hits 300m users, but are things as rosy as they seem?

China’s wildly popular Sina Weibo has hit the 300-million registered user mark. That’s according to news published on the microblog’s site and translated by…

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