Chinese Twitter, Weibo's service already has 200 million users

The Chinese often copy various devices (and even airplanes), posing as their own designs. In addition, the Chinese are doing about the same and on the web. But interestingly, some clones in China are no less popular than the original. So, the Chinese prefer to use their own search service Baidu, in addition, not so long ago they created their own microblogging service Weibo. The latter is becoming increasingly popular day by day.

So, at the beginning of this year, the number of Weibo users was 140 million, which was already written on Habré. Now, a few months later, the Weibo user base is similar in size to the number of Twitter accounts (which, by the way, is blocked in China). Yes, Weibo now has more than 200 million users, which can be considered an excellent result. The service itself was launched about two years ago.
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Of course, it should be borne in mind that there are about half a billion Chinese web users, so Chinese services have good potential for growth. In fact, Weibo is the third most popular resource in China. Ahead of him is only the same Baidu search engine and QQ instant messaging service.

As for the income of the company that owns Weibo, in the second quarter, it received revenue of $ 119 million. This is about 20% more than the same period last year.

Via afp