Murong Xuecun on Twitter Smear Campaign
The New York Times quotes Murong Xuecun and his literary agent on the Twitter smear campaign the...
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The 2014 China Scholars Twitterati 100
The University of Nottingham’s Jonathan Sullivan has added a further 100 actively tweeting...
“Speech is Free; Rumors are Not”
Following the announcement of new restrictions on instant messaging and a fresh string of arrests,...
Jason Q. Ng on Hairy Bacon and Digital Censorship
At PEN America, Deji Olukotun talks to Jason Q Ng, author of Blocked on Weibo: What Gets...
HK’s House News Closes Citing Political Pressure
Hong Kong pro-democracy website, blog, and news aggregator House News (主場新聞) has shut down due to...
Twitter Suspends Tibet Propaganda Accounts
The New York Times’ Andrew Jacobs reports on a wave of Twitter accounts spreading pro-Chinese...
What Might Twitter In China Look Like?
In brief comments at Code Conference on Wednesday, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said that while the...
Sina Weibo IPO Lays Bare Censorship Burden
Despite talk of its precipitous decline, “China’s Twitter” Sina Weibo is aiming...
Microbloggers Reveal Militarization in Tibet
Earlier this week, human rights and cultural preservation NGO International Campaign for Tibet...
Planning for U.S. IPO, Sina Weibo Turns First-Ever Profit
The Wall Street Journal reports on microblogging service Sina Weibo’s plan to launch an IPO...
Censorship and Innovation in China’s Social Media
As has been noted by prominent users and statistically proven by recent studies, the social...
Teen Weibo User’s Request for Compensation Denied
Local authorities in Gansu have rejected a 16-year-old’s request for an apology and symbolic...
Weibo User Numbers Slide as Rivals Grow
A new government report shows a 9% drop last year in users of Sina Weibo and other Twitter-like...
Netizen Voices: “Imaginary” Internet Company’s IPO
Weibo users respond to Twitter’s initial public offering on Friday: @微博搜索: The US financial bubble...
Weibo Users Shocked by “Non-Existent” Twitter’s IPO
News of Twitter’s IPO on Friday was greeted with wry comments on the service’s Chinese...
Two Bloggers Detained as Rumor Crackdown Expands
Reuters reports that two more influential—or “Big V”—bloggers have been detained amid...
“Interesting From China”: NYT Launches Sinosphere Blog
Austin Ramzy and Philip Pan introduce The New York Times’ new Sinosphere blog with a look...
Reflections on Ten Years of Covering China from Cyberspace
Ten years ago this month, China Digital Times was born with the publication of this post. Xiao...
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