Sina Weibo’s 4 Steps to Dominance in China
Kai-Fu Lee's Sina Weibo Account Twitter is virtually nonexistent in China–yes, there are some foreigners and international Chinese who run VPNs to access Twitter–but their numbers are dwarfed by the...
View ArticleSina Weibo Adds Voicemail Weibos and Direct Video Uploads
3 months ago, I predicted that Sina would launch multimedia sharing on Sina Weibo. And today that’s a reality, with the launch of voicemail tweets and direct video uploads. I also mentioned the...
View ArticleFaWave: The Easiest Way to Post to Twitter and Sina Weibo Simultaneously
A number of social media addicts, experts, and spammers have asked me how to post to Twitter and Sina Weibo simultaneously. The best answer I’ve found to-date is a groovy Chrome Extension called FaWave...
View ArticleSina Weibo Launches User Data Center, A Potential Source of Revenue...
What more can Sina Weibo offer users? They can offer their 140 million users tools to track and monitor their own Weibo accounts, and that is exactly what Sina did by launching data.weibo.com. The site...
View ArticleThe First Sina Weibo vs. Twitter Battlefield? Japan.
Twitter is blocked in China. Sina Weibo is working on an English-language version and has other languages in the works. But the first real test of whether Sina Weibo has any potential outside of...
View ArticleSina Weibo is for Fun, Twitter is more for News [STUDY]
The longstanding narrative is that China’s netizens log-on more for entertainment (games, celebrities, jokes) while the West’s do so more for information (search, e-commerce, news). A new study...
View ArticleFlipboard中国 – The Killer iPad App is Coming (back) to China
Flipboard found itself in the spotlight in 2010 as it was named Apple iPad’s App of the Year after turning the iPad into a personalized digital magazine, pulling content from users’ social networks and...
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