Microblogs can quickly aggregate critical voices, which is why authorities have been increasing controls, said Xiao Qiang, director of the China Internet Project at the University of California ...

China regularly restricts the search feature on microblogs to stop the spread of news it would prefer kept quiet, while each service’s ‘Rumor Control’ teams work to locate and delete ...

The rise of local microblogs has come as China’s single-party government grapples with perceived challenges to its rule from the Internet.

Chinese microblogs do not yet have enough people talking about brands to offer valuable analysis of user discussions to businesses, said Sam Flemming, founder and chairman of CIC, an Internet word ...

Microblogs hold strong appeal since netizens can garner more public attention, join discussion groups and make more friends. Many Chinese are innately shy and talking to strangers seems ...

BEIJING—China mounted a broad Internet crackdown beginning Friday, putting temporary restrictions on popular microblogging services run by Sina Corp. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. and detaining ...

Microblogs caught fire in China just as they did in the US: more than half of the nation's 500 million internet users have accounts. Like Twitter, China's microblogs play host to lively ...

More than 3,000 government organizations in China use Sina's microblogs, according to Sina spokesman Liu Qi. Experts say these numbers are expected to rise.

For example, microblogs were quick to report on alleged corruption in the Chinese Red Cross, specifically claims that Guo Meimei, a 21-year-old employee, was spending Red Cross money on sports ...

The Chinese government announced today that it will tighten restrictions on all Internet service providers for blogs, microblogs, and online forums -- forcing them to act as Web police, according ...