Micro-blogs in China: Tweeting through the ‘Great Firewall’

By Lara Farra
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Beijing, China – 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 after Twitter was launched in the U.S. in 2006.