His microblogs, which had tens of millions of followers, were erased overnight.
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Chinese internet companies shut down the microblogs of Ren Zhiqiang, a property tycoon.
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As for Mr. Xue, he was detained during a crackdown on influential opinion-makers whose microblogs had millions of online followers.
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Companies will now have to start logging the activities of users posting in blogs, microblogs, chat rooms, short video platforms and webcasts.
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Photographs posted on microblogs show what appear to be dozens of people staging protests with banners calling for the school to relocate.
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A mass of debris rolled down a lush mountain toward the small village, according to images posted by local state media on their official Weibo microblogs.
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Still, censors blocked access to the term "Shanghai stock market" and to the index numbers themselves on microblogs, along with other obscure references to sensitive issues.
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The new requirements will apply to services including online forums, blogs, microblogs, chat rooms, news providers, short or streaming video platforms and information-sharing apps, among others.
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Before censorship of China's microblogs intensified, Yang's essays on topics ranging from Chinese nationalism to the fate of ethnic minorities in Tibet, made him a popular commentator.
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As he approached retirement a few years ago, he embraced Twitter-like microblogs to defend property developers from complaints of corruption and started posting blunt views about the country.
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The aircraft then returned to the southern Chinese island province of Hainan, from where they had taken off, it added in a brief story on one of its official microblogs.
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Years ago, some prominent Chinese internet personalities began publishing on their microblogs the PM 2.5 concentrations in Beijing that were being reported in real-time by a United States Embassy Twitter account.
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In part as a result of tightening censorship, China's online chatter has been gradually migrating from public microblogs to instant-messaging apps such as WeChat, where users can create private groups up to 500 strong.
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In recent days his microblogs have taken on Mr Xi himself, commenting scornfully on the president's inspection tour on February 19th of the party's main mouthpieces: the People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency and China Central Television.
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Activists use "microblogs" to critique the government.Mead, Walter. "Social Media Endangers and Empowers China’s Activists." The American Interest, 5 Mar. 2013. Web.
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Analyze This:Trendrr Helps Navigate Social Media for Video Companies,BeetTV May 11, 2010 The service's data tracking capabilities include blogs, microblogs, news aggregators, social networks, commerce, and video sites.
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The official microblogging of Durex started on the Chinese Sina Weibo in January 2011. The number of its followers is 2.65 million (in 2018) and the number of its microblogs is more than 20,000. Durex's homepage also includes promoting Weibo microblogs. Durex's marketing in China is discreet, as the Chinese usually like larger families, compared with the more western approach to families, with campaigns of their products run subtly to comply with the requirements of social ethics.
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Forums are an element of social media technologies which take on many different forms including blogs, business networks, enterprise social networks, forums, microblogs, photo sharing, products/services review, social bookmarking, social gaming, social networks, video sharing and virtual worlds.
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Pal, A., & Counts, S. (2011, February). Identifying topical authorities in microblogs. In Proceedings of the fourth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining (pp. 45-54). ACM. designed features to measure a user's authority on a certain topic.
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Dashan continues to be a popular performer and on-air personality on Chinese television. In recent years Dashan has also become more active in online and social media, attracting over 5 million followers on two Chinese microblogs, Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo.
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Feb 2011: Ven. Master Xuecheng opened microblogs in eight languages, including Chinese, English, French, German, Russian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish. Dec 2012: Monk & Blog, a compilation of 100 sets of microblog posts, was published. Sep 2015: A Series of Teachings by Ven.
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An information technology engineer, blogging as "Chen Chuanliang Peter", claimed to have developed software that differentiated paid blog "followers," and found that about 17 percent of followers on Sina's ten most popular microblogs "never interacted or responded to those they were following. In other words, they were zombies."Xinhua (2011). Cheng Chen et al.
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This also helps with mobile email users who cannot see bold or color in email. In microblogging (such as Twitter and GNU social-based microblogs), @ before the user name is used to send publicly readable replies (e.g. `@otheruser: Message text here`). The blog and client software can automatically interpret these as links to the user in question.
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Large numbers of sympathetic posts for Bo appeared in microblogs from Chongqing, and Dalian, where Bo was once mayor. The Global Times also wrote a sympathetic editorial. Liberal media reacted positively, criticizing Bo's style of 'personality-based rule' as dangerous and regressive. Right- leaning commentators said Bo's downfall signified a 'correct orientation' to China's future development.
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Eureka Streams is a free, open-source enterprise social networking platform developed by Lockheed Martin. Activity streams and gadgets make up its core functionality. Content within Eureka Streams consists primarily of microblogs and internal and external web feeds. Users typically provide links to other content, such as wikis, blogs and shared documents housed in a content management system.
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Although the Chinese write fewer emails, they enjoy other online communication tools. Users form their communities based on different interests. Bulletin boards on portals or elsewhere, chat rooms, instant messaging groups, blogs and microblogs are very active, while photo-sharing and social networking sites are growing rapidly. Some Wikis such as the Soso Baike and Baidu Baike are "flourishing".
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The series has tried to keep up with the continuing changes in China. Qiu goes back regularly to visit, watches Chinese TV via satellite, and reads Chinese newspapers over the internet. The seventh novel, Don't Cry, Tai Lake touches on environmental contamination in modern China. Discussions and revelations on Chinese microblogs (Weibo) inspired some of the eighth novel, The Enigma of China.
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Sina Weibo is an equivalent to Tencent Weibo. Many celebrities from mainland China, Taiwan and also Hong Kong use Sina's Microblog as a platform to reach out to their fans and supporters. Some famous users on Sina's Microblog include Taiwanese hosts Dee Shu and Kevin Tsai, with more than ten million followers on their microblogs each. A big challenge for Sina is monetizing the massive Weibo following.
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On July 2012, Chinese microblogs caught on to the news of Koo's low profile philanthropy in China, which became a trending topic, more and more people born in different remote rural areas found that local elementary schools were built with donation of Koo, and upload photos to the microblogs. Major Chinese dailies further reported that he had helped build 49 schools to help the underprivileged in remote areas in rural China for the past three years without any publicity. Koo was reluctant to comment on the issue but it was learnt that Koo set up his charity foundation after witnessing the devastation from the Sichuan earthquake in 2008. According to "Grace charity" website, Koo has helped build 97 elementary school buildings, 18 clinics and 751 small water supply projects in remote undeveloped areas of rural China through "Grace Charity Foundation Limited" and local government by 2017.
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Networked Insights Inc. is an analytics software company headquartered in Chicago, IL with additional offices in New York City and Madison. Founded in 2006 by entrepreneur Dan Neely, the company aims to help its customers make marketing and advertising more effective by capturing and analyzing social media conversations from blogs, internet forums, microblogs like Twitter and social networks like Facebook. Networked Insights’ technology platform, called 'Kairos', includes online analytical processing and social media measurement tools.
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According to the China Internet Network Information Center, in the first half of 2011, Chinese weibo users increased from 63.11 million to 195 million. By July 2011, 40.2% Chinese Internet users and 34.0% Chinese mobile Internet users used weibo/microblogs. In Dec 2010, it had been, respectively, 13.8% and 15.5%.The statistical data may or may not include the mainland Chinese users that bypass the Great Firewall to use blocked microblogging services outside China.
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In July 2009, Chinese microblogs were severely curtailed when most of the domestic weibo services such as Fanfou were shut down. But it brought the birth of others, such as Tencent Weibo and Sina Weibo, operated by large Chinese Internet companies. Sohu Weibo and NetEase Weibo were suspended in July 2010 under the order of the Chinese administrators. Weibo is now operated as a "beta version", enabling the user to circumvent prohibition.
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Bo's downfall elicited strong reactions among the Chinese public and with commentators across the political spectrum. Leftist websites such as Utopia, Red China, and Maoflag were full of angry commentary over Bo's dismissal. These websites were shut down for a period of "maintenance" shortly after. Leftist commentators voiced support for Bo: Kong Qingdong called Bo's dismissal 'a plot by enemies of the state'; Sima Nan said associating Bo with the Cultural Revolution was a 'smear campaign'; Sima's pro-Bo microblogs were censored.
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The new regulations, issued by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, allow Internet users to continue to adopt pseudonyms for their online postings, but only if they first provide their real names to service providers, a measure that could chill some of the vibrant discourse on the country's Twitter-like microblogs. The authorities periodically detain and even jail Internet users for politically sensitive comments, such as calls for a multiparty democracy or accusations of impropriety by local officials.
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Brian Spegele, Quiet returns to once restive Shifang, The Wall Street Journal, 4 July 2012. Images and video of the protest circulated on the microblogs and social networking websites throughout China, some showing the protesters—many of them students—badly beaten. The protests ended late on 3 July when the local government announced that it had terminated construction of the metals plant and released all but six protesters who had been taken into custody.Caixin Online, Timeline of Shifang Protests, 5 July 2012.
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While these may be characteristics to help classify online communities, they may not all apply to a specific online community nor does an online community need to embody each of these characteristics. The four requirements of "virtual settlement" include: interactivity, a variety of communicators, a common public place where members can meet and interact, and sustained membership over time. Based on these considerations, it can be said that microblogs such as Twitter can be classified as online communities.Gruzd, Anatoliy, Barry Wellman, and Yuri Takhteyev.
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Residents of Dalian organised a "stroll" (used as a euphemism for "protest" in China to avoid censorship) in People's Square through Weibo, Twitter, blogs and Internet forums to spread the message. On 14 August, tens of thousands of people gathered in the Square to protest, demanding the factory be immediately shut down and relocated, and that investigation into the factory be made public. The news agency Reuters reported that Chinese authorities had blocked searches for the terms "PX", "Dalian" and "Dalian protests" on Weibo microblogs.
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A recently emerging task of identifying "important expressions" in text and cross-linking them to WikipediaLinking Documents to Encyclopedic Knowledge.Local and Global Algorithms for Disambiguation to Wikipedia. can be seen as an instance of extremely fine- grained named-entity recognition, where the types are the actual Wikipedia pages describing the (potentially ambiguous) concepts. Below is an example output of a Wikification system: Michael Jordan is a professor at Berkeley Another field that has seen progress but remains challenging is the application of NER to Twitter and other microblogs.
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ReputationWatch is a reputation management service for small and medium-sized businesses and it is a collaboration between JamiQ and Singapore telecommunications company, Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel). Email alerts about local and relevant conversations on new sites and social media platforms such as blogs, forums, social networks and microblogs worldwide are sent to users. It is built on JamiQ’s social media monitoring technology to allow businesses to track real-time online conversations about their brands in their local market and it is only available on SingTel’s myBusiness Cloud Computing portal in Singapore.
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A liveblog is a blog post which is intended to provide a rolling textual coverage of an ongoing event, similar to Live television or live radio. Liveblogging has increased in usage by news organizations and blogging establishments since the mid-2000s, when they were initially used to broadcast updates of technology conferences in the absence of or alongside streaming video captures, and like microblogs, have gained currency as an online publication format which performs the same function as that of live television news coverage. The BBC uses the word "live text" for its own liveblogging events.
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Incorporative of microblogs (which are continuously updated but are also used widely as a short-form liveblogging platform), a liveblog is a single post which is constantly updated by one or more authors (usually on-location correspondents) with up-to-the-minute logs of the goings- on, and are usually performed during specific types of events rather than as regular features. Furthermore, during longer-running events beyond the length of twenty-four hours (such as civil, political or military events), a liveblog post will be ended after a 24-hour period and followed by a successive liveblog post for the next 24 hours.
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Chinese "Internet navy" Wangluo shuijun were preceded by government and private organizations that paid professional Internet commentators. Governmental programs of social media manipulation are found worldwide. China's 50 Cent Party (named from the 0.5 yuan payment per posting) trains and employs tens of thousands of online commentators to promote the PRC party line and control public opinion on microblogs, bulletin board systems, and chatrooms. The social media marketing business model did not originate in China, and is a worldwide phenomenon exemplified by companies such as FansandInvites in the US, SocioNiks in the United Kingdom, and uSocial in Australia.
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"Nae Yeojacinguleul Butaghae (Say No)" is the official second single from their EP. The music video for "Nae Yeojacinguleul Butaghae (Say No)" was released on April 14 through Yang Yo Seob, Jang Hyun Seung, and Son Dong Woon's personal microblogs, yozm, with Yo Seob the first to upload the music video. A representative from Cube Entertainment said that this music video was a promise and gift for the fans. The members of Beast made the video themselves without the help of any staff members. The music video was in black and white and kept simple and focused on the members singing or rapping their part.
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The rise of social media has drastically changed the nature of journalistic reporting, giving rise to so-called citizen journalists. In a 2014 study of journalists in the United States, 40% of participants claimed they rely on social media as a source, with over 20% depending on microblogs to collect facts. From this, the conclusion can be drawn that breaking news nowadays often stems from user-generated content, including videos and pictures posted online in social media. However, though 69.2% of the surveyed journalists agreed that social media allowed them to connect to their audience, only 30% thought it had a positive influence on news credibility.
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Blogs have great potential to display attributes of SIP, as it is purely a non-verbal way of communicating. Yanru Guo and Dion Hoe-Lian Goh conducted a content analysis on posting on microblogs in China, where individuals discussed having an STI, and more specifically having AIDS. They were attempting to display the transformation of messages over time and how intimate relationships were developed through the use of the blog. They compared over 1250 messages at the beginning of their time period to over 900 messages at the end of the time period, to see the difference between the depth of communication each user provided.
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There have been studies showing the effectiveness of recommendation systems which utilize relationships among users on social media compared to traditional collaborative filtering based systems, specifically for movie and book recommendation. Another improvement brought by social media to recommender systems is solving the cold start problem for new users. Some key application areas of social media content recommendation are blog and blog post recommendation, multimedia content recommendation such as YouTube videos, question and answer recommendation to question askers and answerers on social question-and-answer websites, job recommendation (LinkedIn), news recommendation on social new aggregator sites (like Digg, GoogleReader, Reddit etc.), short message recommendations on microblogs (such as Twitter).
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After the conclusion of the 18th Party Congress in China, on November 20, 2012, Zhu Ruifeng posted the screen shot on his website “Civil Supervision”; Xu Jiguang, a former investigative journalist later posted it on his personal microblog. Because of the popularity of microblogs in China, people started to pay attention; the number of hits to the Civil Supervision blog dramatically increased, reaching more than 20 million. This phenomenon drew the attention of other media, and they began to interview Lei, who commented that the “promiscuous video is deceitful”. On November 23, the press office of the Chongqing municipal government issued a microblog stating that the Chongqing Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, in charge of enforcing party discipline, had taken note of the content of the video and was verifying its authenticity.
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ByteDance's core product, Toutiao ("Headlines"), is a content platform in China and around the world. Toutiao started out as a news recommendation engine and gradually evolved into a platform delivering content in various formats, such as texts, images, question-and-answer posts, microblogs, and videos. ByteDance is the developer of the video-sharing social networking services and apps TikTok and Douyin, the Chinese-specific counterpart to TikTok. On November 9, 2017, ByteDance acquired Shanghai-based social media start-up Musical.ly for up to US$1 billion. They combined it with TikTok on August 2, 2018 into a single global application, keeping the TikTok name. As of November 2018, ByteDance had over 800 million daily active users (over 1 billion accumulated users) across all of its content platforms. The company was valued at $78 billion and is considered one of the most valuable unicorns in the world.
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