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Microblogger Behind “Study Xi Fan Club” Calls It Quits With Cryptic Message
Less than a week after outing himself as the microblogger behind the super popular “Study Xi Fan Club,” migrant worker and college dropout Zhang Hongming may be calling it quits. According to SCMP:...
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Kobe Bryant Has A Verified Sina Weibo Account; 160,000 Followers, 0 Posts
We’re not sure when this happened, but the Black Mamba joined Sina Weibo. He hasn’t posted a thing, but more than 160,000 people are anxiously awiting that first message (that number of followers is...
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Sina Weibo Suspends Three Prominent Accounts In Less Than Two Weeks
What do former Taiwan premier Frank Hsieh Chang-Ting, former Google president Kai-Fu Lee, and human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang have in common? Within the last three weeks, each of them has seen his...
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Did This Guy Get “Raped” By A Girl On The Streets Of Chengdu?
“The mighty women of Chengdu, ‘raping’ a man on the street,” reads the opening to this Sina Weibo post. With all the usual disclaimers that this is hearsay, let us continue: Saw a ferocious woman at...
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General Luo Yuan’s Sina Weibo Account Remains The Greatest (As He Would...
In one his first Weibo posts, General Luo Yuan described social media as a critical “battleground” in modern society. As his first week on the service draws to a close, it seems that his comparison...
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Did CCTV Buy Out Taiwanese Actor Peter Ho, Among Others, To Publish Weibo...
Peter Ho, a popular Taiwanese-American actor and singer, is successful and rich enough that he probably doesn’t need to supplement his income by selling out favors to companies like CCTV, but then how...
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Country Breakdown Of Social Network Traffic Shows Not Many Countries Besides...
This is interesting. Above, via the bitly blog, is a map showing relative social network usage in countries around the world. The more red a country is, the more clicks. The coloration isn’t at all...
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Kobe Bryant’s Legion Of Chinese Basketball Fans Flood Social Media To Wish...
On Friday, the Los Angeles Lakers’ torturous season suffered another calamity when star guard Kobe Bryant tore his Achilles tendon, ending one of his most impressive statistical seasons on a down...
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Peeking At What Sina Weibo Doesn’t Want You To See, In English
Hong Kong University’s China Media Project already has an awesome service in WeiboScope, which preserves deleted Sina Weibo messages deemed too “sensitive.” Apparently determined to bring those...
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Lionel Messi endorses WeChat, i.e. Weixin, i.e. the next Sina Weibo, as some people have called it on account of its functionality and interstellar growth. You can send texts for free (pending...
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Mike Tyson, Newly Arrived To Sina Weibo, Is Already Picking On China’s Chengguan
Iron Mike Tyson, former heavyweight champion of the boxing world, registered a verified Sina Weibo account on Monday, and four posts later, he’s already hitting all the right spots. Check out his most...
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Provincial Courts Turn To Social Media To Knock Beijing’s Anti-Rumor Campaign
Published in collaboration with Offbeat China. The relationship between China’s central and local governments has never been linear or completely top-down. There are times of harmony, but more often,...
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Study Of Weibo User Behavior Finds Anger Spreads Faster Than Joy
Ever look at social media and find yourself overwhelmed by the negativity of the content, the cynicism and choler, the splenetic outbursts and general ire? Or find yourself similarly frustrated with...
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Russian Embassy Compares Crimea Crisis With Tiananmen Incident On Weibo
As the US and EU prepare to levy economic sanctions on Russia for its actions in Ukraine, Russia’s leaders may be growing desperate to find support wherever they can. On Tuesday at 12:14 pm, the...
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The Age Of The Intranet: WeChat Gets Its Weibo Moment
Sina Weibo’s watershed came in 2011 after two high-speed trains crashed in Wenzhou: as officials bungled the response, and then censored news stories, netizens stormed onto Sina’s microblogging...
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