Bulletin Board Systems Personal home pages Blogs 1990’s
Chatrooms Shockwave Flash Video Instant messaging
Most Recently… Copy Cat of “Sina’s Weibo”
"These censorship practices reflect government anxieties about the potentially destabilizing consequences of open information flow."
According to Twitbase.com 85,541 Chinese-language twitter users as of November 2010.
"The Internet is a metaphor for a China caught between national anxieties and global aspirations."