{"id":10039,"date":"2014-05-27T09:06:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T13:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=10039"},"modified":"2014-05-26T10:29:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T14:29:37","slug":"a-guide-to-the-internet-in-china-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/a-guide-to-the-internet-in-china-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"A Guide to the Internet in China – Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Social media is a force to be reckoned with in the 21st century, and nowhere is this more true than in China. Sure, Facebook and Twitter are blocked by the Great Firewall of China, but this doesn’t mean that Chinese people don’t use social media – far from it. China ended the year 2013 with 618 million internet users<\/a>, with an estimated 90% or so of them using social media, compared to only around 70% in the US. That means there are more Chinese people on social media than there are people in the entire European Union. They might not be Tweeting, but they sure as hell are hooked on connecting and sharing online. But what sites are they using, and how do these compare to other, more familiar social media giants in the rest of the world? Let’s take a closer look at the wild world of Chinese social media:<\/p>\n