"China has the most complex, fragmented, and developed social media landscape in the world with a unique online culture that requires its own specialized understanding," said Sam Flemming, CIC Chairman and Founder.
Foreigners speaking Chinese in China has always been a bit of a rarity, although recently more and more are mastering the language. The few brave foreigners who dare to sing in Chinese typically attract even more attention. Here are just a few:
In an effort to stifle the spread of information related to protests in China's Inner Mongolia, the nation's web censors have taken action to try to stop discussion of the event via various social media channels.
Throughout the campaign, 56,734 tweets tagged with #Turkcelltweet were sent. It became a Twitter trending topic in Turkey, reaching 3.6 million people.
In 2008, the Indian government pledged to provide "power for all" by 2012. It's already near mid 2011 and power cuts remain to be a big problem in India.
Twitter can't solve the problem, but it could at least help to report the locations where power cuts occurred. Indians who experience power cuts are encouraged to tweet the time and location with a hashtag #powercutindia or #powercutsin.