Weibo?

[Peng]

I wonder, do any of you have 微薄 (microblog or Chinese version of Twitter)? I am looking for right Weibo and it seems there are too many Chinese clones all over… I'd like to have one to practice Chinese. Do you have any recommendation?

[skylee]

should be 微博 instead.

[feihong]

Try lang-8.com. Not strictly a Chinese-based website, but there are a lot of Chinese people on it. As a bonus, you can have total strangers correct your posts.

[gato]

新浪微博 is the most popular, I think. It has a nice iPhone app.

http://t.sina.cn/dpool/ttt/v2star.php?cat=1&subcat=15&sorttype=industry&lcat=1&gsid=3_58a34a177c6e796a235bfba46759967396fa54

[Outofin]

I don't remember what made me register sina weibo, but now it's become my most frequently visited site. It's highly addictive. Jump on, guys!

I have a Twitter account too, but I don't know what to do with it. Sina pushes content to your face, and Chinese users forward messages much more often than Twitter users, so it's very easy to from one person to find related people and topics.

Generally speaking, real cool guys don't do weibo, but there're a good number of people I am very interested in, 黄秋生, 马世芳, 方舟子, and many others. Celebrities use it as a marketing tool. It's indeed a very effective tool to connect with fans.

Businessmen like 李开复 and 潘石屹 are a bit bland in personalities, but they have information.

[glock]

try to enjoy it, cuz soon its gonna be censored as well! http://gu.com/p/32qfx/tw

[Meng Lelan]

I don't know how weibo even got permitted in the first place.

[Benignant]

Guys, would you use english language twitter-like website in china?

[renzhe]

Oh! A weibo thread!

If any of you guys are registered and are interested in impressions of a Chinese girl living in Portugal, you can follow my girlfriend's daily photo-blog: just search for the user xinxin天地

The photos are worth it.

[马盖云]

renzhe,

Sina Weibo? Cant find it with the search string xinxin天地 you gave above.

[Loriquero]

found her, nice pics.

[renzhe]

Sina Weibo? Cant find it with the search string xinxin天地 you gave above.

Yes, Sina Weibo. It should work, we've just tried. Enter xinxin天地 into the search box at the top, then click on "找人" on the left side, she should be the only hit. You'll have to be logged in, though.

found her, nice pics.

Thanks, she appreciates every follower she gets.

[oozio]

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新浪微博is great XD...>< to me it's more like tumblr than twitter, but that depends on who you follow....alternatively there's 腾讯微博，but that's like the wrath of god the diary of a teenage girl with severe junior-high-year-two syndrome ORZ.

↖( ゜▽ ゜)↖

[马盖云]

找到了！ Followed. (stalker mode enabled!) 哈哈！

I will try to read her blog posts to the extent my Chinese reading skills will allow! Thanks!

[roddy]

Any of our Chinese microblog users finding themselves unable to post? The BBC is reporting (in Chinese) that accounts not registered to a real name are being prevented from posting.

[renzhe]

Still works.

But the news is making the rounds, so it's possible that things will change soon.

[yialanliu]

Works for me still, would suck if it stopped working.

[lukejmo]

Tried signing up and it required my passport number. As per Roddy, from what I understand, all accounts must be tied to a real name. Tencent Weibo actually doesn't require this, but it's not nearly as popular.