Twitter is banned in China, so instead
the country uses a platform called Weibo. Now, Weibo has more users than
Twitter.
Owned by Sina, Weibo says it's
garnered 340 million monthly active users as of March. This number is higher
than Twitter's reported
328 million total users according to CNET.
Twitter is one of several foreign
platforms, like Google, Facebook and Wikipedia, barred from China by the
country's internet censorship, dubbed the "Great Firewall." But local
versions are available in the country, including Weibo and Baidu, China's
equivalent of Google.
China has seen masses flocking to the
internet in recent years, with the China
Internet Network Information Centre reporting 731 million people --
more than twice the US population --
connected to the internet as of December last year. As the penetration number
is only a little more than half of China's population at
53.2 percent, it is expected to grow.
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