Sometimes, it’s not a bad move getting people’s idea and starting off from there building something similar with extra features added on.
Twitter have been an international phenomenon in recent years with 75 Million users users in early 2010.
then, a few Twitter-like service have emerged from China/Taiwan with everything translated to Chinese/Mandarin and before they could actually make it big, the great wall of China denied them straight leaving these services out of reach for the massive internet users from China.
In August 2009, China’s web portal giant Sina.com 新浪 launched a beta version of microblogging service that is similar to Twitter – Weibo 新浪微博. As of early 2010, Sina’s CEO have revealed that there are already 5 Million registered users in total using the service.
Looking at the growth of the service with more users registering each day, Weibo is on its way to to bring Social Media to the next level in China. With China’s population growing thus increasing the numbers of internet users at a rapid rate each day, i wonder how big will Weibo become.
Famous Individuals on Weibo
Celebrities on Weibo
Just like Twitter, the massive amounts of signups by famous celebrities/individuals on Weibo did quite the magic in getting the numbers up, but as long as China is standing firm along with “THE GREAT (FIRE)WALL OF CHINA”, there’ll be limited expanding space for Weibo 新浪微博.
Twitter VS Weibo : the most followed users
Media on Weibo
Personally, i prefer following Chinese Celebrities more than the Western ones, so i do hope that Weibo 微博 will make it big in the next few years, but of course, i’ll still be active on Twitter as that’s where all my friends are.
Anyhow, 关注我吧!
Here’s a very up-to-date list of all the Web 2.0 and social-networking sites that are not accessible in China:
Facebook
Twitter
YouTube
Posterous blogs
Blogger blogs (a.k.a. Google’s Blogspot service)
Wordpress free blogs
Typepad blogs
LiveJournal blogs
Opera blogs
Tumblr
LiveLeak
DailyMotion
ImageShack
Google’s Picasa Web Albums (login accessible, but borked thereafter, and photos inaccessible)
Google Image search results (very frequent reset connections)
Orkut
Bebo
Check out the links below if you’re want to find out more about Weibo 微博
Related Links :
Twitter now has 75M users
新浪CEO曹国伟首次透露微博用户达500万人
Sina’s Twitter-esque microblogging site: A closer look
7 things Sina Microblog (Weibo) has that Twitter doesn’t
Read more about Sina Microblogging Service Weibo 新浪微博 Here
Other Twitter-like Microblogging platforms
我在 Wozai
叽歪 Jiwai
做啥 Zuosa
滔滔 Taotao
嘀咕 Digu
iPhone Apps
新浪微博 Sina Weibo for iPhone
做啥 Zuosa for iPhone
My uni friends from China complain 2 me this cant access, that cant access back in their home country… lol. The mainland Chinese has a very different flavour when it comes to internet content.
So, see what they can see in abundance in Aussieland!
.-= biopolymath´s last blog ..Pentecost Sunday =-.
lol different flavour? like how? xD
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thanks for your info…. i saw many newspapers talking about Weibo but do not have any idea abt it til I read this….
.-= carrie´s last blog ..All the best of the day =-.
haha its not too late to know now =)
hmmmm, i still prefer plurk ooo~~~
hahahaahaha^^
.-= xjion89´s last blog ..Cameron Trippin 2009 =-.
hahaha diff ppl like diff stuffs bah, nth bad with it =D
TWITTER!!!!
I dont know chinese… >.<
.-= Jessy´s last blog ..Yakiniku Restaurant =-.
come i teach u LOL!
Lol … It’s like so sad that they missed out so much … I still prefer facebook and twitter … =P
> Christine : alot ppl jz stick to facebook only nowadays haha
one of the reasons that i dont like facebook is too many of my friends are there, and some of them whom i dont like, annoyingly, they ask to add me. but facebook is so popularly now, it’s like everybody HAS to have one.
hmmmm
thanks for this!! it’s so comprehensive!! love it!
=)
btw, i have a question. is there anyway to “embed” weibo in your blog? for example, for Plurk, i can embed my updates in my blog so whenever i update Plurk, the updated are shown on my blog as well. Thanks!!!
sorry it’s me again. managed to do the embedding finally
i needed to use the chinese version of weibo, not the english version to do it. lol. but all good now. cheers ^_^