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Twitter of the East: China’s love affair with Weibo

Twitter of the East: China’s love affair with Weibo

By Mon, Feb 27, 2012 6:36PM UTC View Comments Twitter of the East: China’s love affair with Weibo

The Chinese love to Weibo. This notwithstanding issues like real-name registration requirements, filtering and censorship. Weibo has become part of Chinese online culture, and even with challenges in the freedom of use and of information, this is a nation of Internet users who love to micro-blog. Vanity Fair calls Weibo services the “Twitter of the...

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Chinese job hunters go online with 140-character micro-resumes

By Wed, May 25, 2011 3:00PM UTC View Comments A Chinese man surfs free internet service at a booth at the China International Auto Accessories Commercial Expo in Beijing Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011. Pic: AP.

With more than 140 million Chinese people using Sina Weibo – the country’s most popular microblogging service given that Twitter is banned - the effects of 140-character bursts of information are changing processes and communication across the nation. Weibos are know as a place for controversy, with politics and taboo subjects frequent discussion topics, but its...

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