According to a survey, thousands of China's residents said they have used several social media sites in the last month, including those that are banned in the country.
(Credit: GlobalWebIndex )
Apparently, China's "Great Firewall" is permeable.
Social media use in the Far East country has reportedly skyrocketed over the last three years despite the government's strict bans on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and other social-networking sites. This is according to new data by global Internet research company GlobalWebIndex.
The data estimates that Facebook users have increased from nearly 8 million to more than 63 million since July 2009, and Twitter users have gone from 11 million to 35 million. Despite these wild jumps in numbers, they are still only a small percentage of China's population -- with 15 percent of Chinese Internet users on Facebook and 8 percent on Twitter.
China's own government-sanctioned microblogging service, Sina Weibo, has 264 million users, or 61 percent of the Internet population, according to the data. It is estimated that China has ... [Read more]
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