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 →
Social ad spending in the Asia-Pacific region will grow faster than social ad spending in North American or Western Europe, according to a new report from eMarketer. The area will see a 48% increase in social network ad spending in 2013 (passing the $2 billion mark), growth partially fueled by its huge social network user base and variety of social networks for marketers to choose from. Read →
China’s Twitter-like Sina Weibo has topped 400 million registered users, according to the Q3 financials for Chinese web portal Sina. This growth is largely being attributed to this summer’s Olympic games: Chairman and CEO Charles Chao said “The London 2012 Olympic Games could very well be termed in China as the ‘social’ Olympics, pushing Weibo.com’s daily active users to a new record.” Read →
Sina Weibo, a Twitter-like social network in China, logged 119 million Olympics-related messages on the first day of the Olympic Games. Video viewing was extremely popular on the platform; Olympic videos from Sina racked up 49 million views. Read →
Sina Weibo (a Twitter-like microblogging site in China) has over 300 million users; but these users are also subject to the occasional government crackdown. Read more about Weibo and view this week’s updated #RLTM Scoreboard with the latest social networking statistics. 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 →
This week saw a huge gain in numbers and traffic for Google+, as the social network finally opened up to the public. Read more about Google+, and check out our latest social networking scoreboard. Read →
Micro-blogging continues to grow in China, and Sina Weibo – referred to by the SFGate as “China’s homegrown equivalent” to Twitter – is responsible for 87% of the time spent on micro-blogging services there. The last figures released by Weibo listed the service as having 50 million members back in October 2010. SFGate reported analyst [...] Read →
China has the largest Internet community in the world with over 420 million users, and has shown steady double-digit user growth rates over the past five years. However, this is only 32% of China’s total population of 1.3 billion, leaving a huge opportunity for growth in the Chinese Internet space, as reported by Penn Olson. [...] Read →
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