Even Weibo has Revived, What about Twitter?

After weeks of reorganization, Conside is finally coming back. Don’t worry that me or the show would disappear. Starting from this episode, Conside will be regularly updated, and bring you the same value with the true insider view of China’s tech scene. Hope you can enjoy it!

 

• A little promotion: The book I translated, the Chinese version of The Innovators by Walter Isaacson is finally available!

 

• News:
  • Netflix signed a content licensing deal with iqiyi (爱奇艺) as a move to enter China
  • Apple requires all kinds of apps with tipping feature to adopt IAP payment mechanism

 

• Feature story: Even Weibo has Revived, What about Twitter?
  • Weibo’s 2016 annual financial report
  • Fanfou (饭否) is one of the earliest imitator of Twitter in China
  • A screenshot of Weibo’s early web page
  • The Weibo page of the most followed celebrity Xie Na (谢娜), who has more than 90m followers
  • E-commerce promotion on Weibo that links to Taobao.com
  • Weibo is always good at ‘absorbing’ features from its foreign models, and the latest one is the ‘Stories’
  • An analysis of internet users in China

 

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