Last year, 56 million Chinese people used the Internet for the first time. Latest figures, published yesterday, show that the total number of Chinese web users reached 513 million, being ranked first among countries with the most web users.
Most users use weibos, microblogging websites similar with Twitter, which are passing the harsh censorship condition of Chinese authorities. These microblogging websites have great success among the Chinese, since are offering the opportunity to express …

Chinese company Tencent runs a Twitter-like microblogging website by the name Tencent Weibo. Now Tencent microblog has also launched the English version of the website to attract users from across the world, reports AFP citing the official Xinhua news agency.
China is the biggest Internet market in the world with over 500 million users that access the Internet regularly. However, China has implemented a robust web censorship system, which is used to block the overseas social networking sites or …

Sina Weibo and other microblogging websites in China are getting ready for the government to impose stronger regulations and more censorship following a series of disruptive events exacerbated by or caused by communication via social media in the world’s second largest economy.
 

Micro-blogging websites in China prepare for tighter government regulations

Sina Weibo is operated by Sina Corporation, which launched the website in August 2009.  Sina Weibo is the most popular …

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Chinese netizens are becoming increasingly fond of microblogging services even as growth of users of the Internet in the country is on the decline.
According to the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) which has recently released data about China’s internet population and what they do online, people in the country are fast adopting microblogging into their daily tech …

Billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, in the midst of a part holiday, part work trip in China, followed up his visit with chief of China’s largest search engine Baidu earlier this week with a visit to Sina Chief Executive Officer Charles Chao in Beijing. Sina is China’s third most visited website, after Baidu and Tencent Holdings Ltd’s QQ.com.  Sina is based in Shanghai.

Sina spokesman Liu Qi said the head of the world’s biggest social networking website had an “information …