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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Look Alike Service of Twitter in Chinese Intends To Expand Worldwide By Adding Other Languages, Including English


One of the most prominent rivals of Twitter, which are just look-alike 
Image representing Twitter as depicted in Crun...                      Image via CrunchBase
services, is a Chinese microblogs which has now decided to expend enough to add foreign languages to its site Chinese. It is definitely expected to begin from English language interface for the much-used iPhone app. The microblog, was released first by a Chinese news portal operator, Sina, back in the August of 2009. Since then it has accumulated up to a 100 million and above users data, which is almost the half users that Twitter has worldwide, which is a huge deal.
The company has just included the English language interface for its iPhone app just in the start of this month although much of its posts still remain in the Chinese language. It was however boasted by the C.E.O. of Sina, Charles Chao himself, that there are there are millions addicted users of the microblog which reside outside the mainland China. He also notified that these places beside China, where mostly users use the site include Hong Kong, Taiwan and North America. He also added afterwards that this new English interface is definitely intended to facilitate these users in foreign countries who already the microblog service, and add more.
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