“Breaking news: Last night, China launched tens of thousands of giant balloons,” one blogger with 1.2 million followers on Weibo, a Twitter-like platform, alongside a video of Lantern Festival festivities.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/world/asia/china-balloon-propaganda.html

But they were quickly scrubbed on platforms including the Twitter-like Weibo and WeChat, a ubiquitous messaging app.

Source: https://businessmirror.com.ph/2023/04/19/anger-rises-in-china-over-censored-beijing-hospital-fire-that-killed-29/

On Friday, Cook had posted a picture of himself smiling with customers and staff at the Apple store in the shopping district of Sanlitun on China’s Twitter-like social media site Weibo.

Source: https://krdo.com/money/cnn-business-consumer/2023/03/25/after-tiktok-chiefs-grilling-in-washington-apples-tim-cook-is-all-smiles-in-beijing/

Researchers put 500 chatbots together in a Twitter-like environment and the results were a lot calmer than real-life social mediathehustle.

Source: https://biztoc.com/x/afd23a85d83c03c1?ref=ff

The novelty of a sleeker Twitter-like home feed copy wears off after the first day, and the ability to easily connect with Instagram mutuals, on the second.

Source: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/metas-threads-needs-to-tie-up-loose-ends/article67087791.ece