As the sole ruling party in China, the Communist Party of China (CPC) must listen attentively to the people's complaints. So micro blogs deserve attention from the authorities. Long and stable rule is ...

Micro-blogging culture in China has gone through many stages of evolution since the advent of Twitter in 2006. While people all over the world now use micro blogs to read and browse news, follow ...

As the influence of public opinion on micro blogs grows stronger, more and more government departments in China are resorting to this technology to communicate with the public, according to a report ...

China's Sina Corp will launch an English version of its microblog, Weibo, by the end of the year for overseas users. The development of the Internet over the past 20 years has not only changed the way ...

The Chinese government’s response to the train crash in Wenzhou left a gaping hole for new media to fill. Three weeks after the fatal high-speed train crash in Wenzhou, China, a fierce and ...

Micro blogs are set to become the next battlefield in China's online advertising market as the practice becomes more popular among Chinese netizens. Micro-blogging was still at a nascent stage in ...

A handful of homegrown micro-blogging sites emerged about the same time Twitter started to gain a small, yet steadily growing, share of Chinese Internet users, beginning about 2007, around a year ...

An early Chinese clone of micro-blog site Twitter that was shut down by authorities last year amid fears it was fanning unrest in the country's restive west has re-emerged. Fanfou, which is widely ...