“Chinese twitter”

Weibo is a Chinese microblogging website, often referred to as the Chinese version of Twitter. Although it might started as a Chinese equivalent of Twitter, Weibo has transformed over the past eight years to a comprehensive platform that incorporates the major features of Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook. In the first quarter of 2017, Sina Weibo had 340 million monthly active users, 91% of whom were mobile users. Although Weibo implements many features from Twitter – such as the 140-character limit, the possibility to mention or talk to other people using @UserName, the use of #Hashtags, and the retweet (re-post) function – there seem to be quite some differences between how Weibo is used in China and Twitter is used in other countries. For instance, users  of Weibo publish more posts than those on Twitter and are more active in reacting on other people and sharing their views.