Sunday, February 27, 2011

THE WORD OF THE WEEK - "WEIBO" MicroBlog

Technically, Weibo is nothing that the Chinese version of Twitter. The difference is that the U.S. microblogging site is a free tool, while Weibo is controlled by the Chinese authorities. Instead of simply prohibiting the tool, they chose to Sinicize to better control it, just like the Internet. Result: Weibo supplant Twitter in China.

End 2010, there were over 100 million Chinese microbloggers. 2010 was named the year I Weibo!

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