While the English microblog market is characterized as being ‘Twitter and challengers we compare to Twitter,’ the Chinese microblogosphere is bursting with competition, creativity and copying. Multiple contenders jostle with each other for 400 million Chinese Internet users that haven’t yet decided which microblog they would prefer to use, if any. To add to the confusion, Chinese government censors have already shut down a couple microblogs. As of February 2010, there are at least 10 microblogs that show promise. We’ve been playing with several of these microblogs for our own learning. That is, we aren’t running any campaigns for clients on microblogs yet but we have been learning how to use each of the major Chinese microblogs. Here’s my thoughts on these microblogs. - Zuosha - Digu - Sina - 9911 - fanfou - taotao We’ll be watching Chinese microblogs closely and continuously working with several of them. I’m excited to see where this leads. What do you think about microblogs in China? Chinese SEO Group