Russia’s big Mail.ru portal is trying to ape Chinese companies’ microblog boom by launching its own Twitter clone. Futubra launched in beta Monday.
Five Ways Twitter’s New Redesign Makes It More Like Sina Weibo
Twitter’s slick new redesign has brought it – visually and practically – closer to China’s most dynamic microblogging platform, Sina’s (NASDAQ:SINA) Weibo. It shows, perhaps, that Sina’s rapid rate of change on its most popular service is now actually leading the way for Twitter. How the tables have turned!
Twitter’s Promoted Tweets Advertisers Can Squat Rivals’ Brands
Twitter apparently allows its clients to buy adverts using rivals’ brand names.
I noticed UK supermarket chain Sainsbury’s had bought ads on Twitter.com against searches for rivals like “Tesco”, “Waitrose” and “Lidl”.
With Launch Of The Verge, SB Nation Parent Rebrands As Vox Media
As of Tuesday, SB Nation no longer stands alone. The sports site, which has grown from a federation of sports blogs to a prominent network and sports hub, will joined by The Verge, a personal tech site from Joshua Topolsky and the team that once pumped energy into Engadget. It’s the first new vertical for...
Facebook-Spotify Love-In Over-Estimated Users’ Social Lives
Inside Spotify, staff say their big U.S. delay left them “constipated”. Now that its American passage has been unblocked, Spotify is free to unload itself on to consumers. But, with its new Facebook partnership, the music service has excreted a big shower of poo on their heads.
BSkyB, Eurostar, BT Buy Twitter’s First UK Advertising
Twitter was due to roll out its first advertising for testing in the UK on Thursday, with more to come in the next few weeks, marking the network’s first ad sell outside the U.S..
A Free Twitter Has Lost In China To A Booming But Censored Weibo
Twitter is now offering its web interface in Simplified Chinese. But a two-year-old block on Twitter being accessible in China has allowed Sina’s homegrown Weibo to flourish - and now it’s already blossoming in to far more than a Twitter-style microblogging tool...
George Bush’s Brother Is ‘Tweeting’ In Chinese On Weibo
George W. Bush’s younger brother Neil has just started microblogging - not on Twitter, nor in English, but on Sina (NSDQ: SINA) Weibo, in Chinese.
George Bush’s Brother Is ‘Tweeting’ In Chinese On Weibo
George W. Bush’s younger brother Neil has just started microblogging - not on Twitter, nor in English, but on Sina (NSDQ: SINA) Weibo, in Chinese.
Yandex Buying Twitter ‘Newspaper’ Maker The Tweeted Times
Russia’s leading search engine is making a foray in the nascent market segment of socially-organised news delivery, by buying The Tweeted Times.
Sina Flaunts Its Microblog Growth In Times Square
Sina’s Weibo microblogging service isn’t even available in English yet - but that hasn’t stopped it reaching 200 million users in two years, nor from flaunting that growth in the heart of New York.
