Twitter now has a Chinese version, and Sina Weibo might have an English version by end of this year. It seems that more and more foreign media love to talk about Sina’s Weibo and compare it with...

Qiyi, the Chinese Hulu has just launched its own microblogging service, named Qitan. Twitter, at its five years anniversary, released a new video saying “Follow your interests. Discover your world.” Qiyi obviously agrees on that because its...

The rumor has been circulated in Chinese microblogging space: Jack Dorsey, the creator, cofounder and chairman of Twitter will be visiting China (Shanghai) in May. It says the visit has been confirmed, but the purpose of this...

Weituan, the Sina’s group-buying aggregator service has been launched for a week. Unlike other group-buying aggregator such as tuan800, 360tuan etc, Sina’s Weituan, with its Weibo service integrated, has many more social features bundled. Basically on Weituan,...

A Sina weibo account which regularly tweets about news and information of a vertical industry and has around 200,000 followers, was sold to an enterprise at the price of several hundreds thousand rmb. This account is owned...

Twitter inspired Sina Weibo. But very soon, popularity of China’s microblog king will surpass its pioneer. By the end of January, Sina’s top-100 micro-bloggers had 198.2 million followers, increase 16% from previous month. This equals 68% of...

HongKong is warm, and its social media environment is hot. Social Media Week, a global conference connecting people, content and conversations around emerging trends in social and mobile media is now taking place in HongKong (8-12 February,...

Lady Gaga is the most popular Twitter user with over 7.8 million followers.  Similarly, in China, the most popular microblog user is  a film and TV actress, Yao Chen.  She has over 5 million people following her on...