Discussion and Analysis: Microblogging
@COMM12microblog
Babacar D., Wendy W., Todd P.
In efforts to evaluate and compare the two social media platforms, our group interviewed several individuals that use both @Twitter and @SinaWeibo
Concerns about this censorship are brewing political dissent: “While the government may be winning the battle for control, it is losing the war for the hearts and minds of the Chinese public.” voanews.com/a/chinas-tight…
Tiananmen Square Incident (天安门事件) happened in June 4, 1989, however the Chinese government has blocked this incident from their own people. Here is how it looks different in Weibo and Twitter youtu.be/SFAhIlLgemY
Though there might be censorship in both platforms, Weibo shows the extreme side of censoring what their users are posting online
Weibo requires all users to register with their real names - those who don’t are unable to post or comment: thediplomat.com/2017/09/weibo-…
Large amounts of people are involved with this constantly evolving social media platform, and it has quickly become part of their daily lives through the process of domestication.
“China has an estimated 731 million web users, more than 90% of whom can access the internet via a smartphone” bbc.com/news/technolog…
bbc.com
Twitter user numbers overtaken by China's Sina Weibo
Chinese micro-blogging site boasts 340 million active monthly users in first three months of 2017.
United States Тренды
- 1. #DWTS 31.3K posts
- 2. Virginia 379K posts
- 3. New York 687K posts
- 4. Jay Jones 65.8K posts
- 5. Andy 56.9K posts
- 6. Alix 6,492 posts
- 7. #Election2025 11K posts
- 8. Louisville 111K posts
- 9. Whitney 9,465 posts
- 10. Elaine 55.7K posts
- 11. #WWENXT 11.5K posts
- 12. Zohran Mamdani 434K posts
- 13. Flav 6,254 posts
- 14. Abigail Spanberger 52.6K posts
- 15. Desmond Bane 1,197 posts
- 16. Danielle 7,769 posts
- 17. Mikie Sherrill 67.5K posts
- 18. Cuomo 340K posts
- 19. WOKE IS BACK 10.3K posts
- 20. Isaiah Evans N/A
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