It’s fairly well known that Sina Weibo, the “Twitter-like” Chinese social media platform, consistently censors posts. But how often – and how quickly – does it do so? A recent study by an independent researcher, in collaboration with Rice University and the University of New Mexico, examines how the site’s operators sort through over 100 million daily messages to find and delete “controversial” posts. Read →
A new report by eMarketer looks at China’s online audience – the largest in the world, with 513 million people – and its continued growth, as well as the expansion of social networking and microblogging (weibo). Read →
Tumblr CEO David Karp revealed new statistics about the blogging platform’s continued growth at this week’s Digital Left Design conference. Tumblr now has 15 billion impressions monthly and an audience of 120 million people, according to a sound clip from the event. Also check out the latest social network stats on the #RLTM Scoreboard. Read →
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