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Weibo

A Chinese microblogging platform often called China's Twitter.

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How I WriteWhy You Should Write Less Often (Dan Wang Interview)

What was said about Weibo

  • Weibo posts disappear quickly because of censorship. Dan Wang says content on Weibo vanishes very fast, a result of censorship on the platform.

    This comes from an interview about writing, where Wang discusses his book Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future. Weibo is mentioned only in passing.

  • Nationalist mobs on Weibo go after people who say the wrong thing. Wang describes nationalist mobs on the platform that target people for saying the wrong thing, which he calls trying to take your scalp.

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