Red Twitter: China Debuts Communist Microblog

The Chinese government has launched "Red Microblog" as a propaganda-filled response to popular micro-blogging sites like Twitter.

Unlike Twitter, which centers around free speech, the new site focuses on disseminating propaganda, namely the quotes of Chairman Mao, and will likely be heavily censored.

According to the Telegraph:

Messages on the home page included: "Work hard, be honest and treat others well", "There is no sky larger than the hand, no road longer than the feet, no mountain higher than the people, no sea wider than the heart", and "Those who go with the flow are forever going up and down in the waves; only those who go against the wind fearing no hardship, can reach the other side fast."

The site has already encountered technical problems however, as new members found it impossible to sign up for the service, reported Mashable.

While a host of other social-networking Twitter "clones" have arisen in China, Twitter has remained censored, according to the Telegraph. Red Microblog is the first of its kind out of the Communist state.

Comments

[lin nil]

10:39 PM on 12/16/2010

Forging news to attach China is not anything new. There is no such thing as a "Red Microblog". Share the link if you got one, please.

[itechnewsnet]

08:10 PM on 12/16/2010

no single link to the so-called Red Microblog can be found on these news sites
the link is http://h.cqnews.net
it is not really a microblog but just a mashup site of the actual twitter-clone is http://www.bula.cn/

more details:
http://blog.clayburngriffin.com/2010/12/link-to-microblog.html
could editors do their job before posting?

[Sticker Ji]

06:15 PM on 12/16/2010

Do not make the judgement so quick. No investigation no rights to speak. I did my research and it turned out that I couldn't find the website. Considering the modern Internet technologies such as google and baidu, if I couldn't find the website's URL, I tend to believe there is no such website.

Here it is, can anyone give any prove about the existence of this government-run, newly-released red-microblogging website? For the first one who discovers the URL, I slap myself 10 times for him/her.

If no one can prove the existence of the website, please, do not make any further statement/judgement based on something not even exist on the earth. Every single rumor is made out of that way and rumors bring sadness to human-beings.

Thanks.

[type wire90]

05:00 PM on 12/16/2010

Is there a link to the actual Red Microblog site?

[redmicroblog]

03:59 PM on 12/16/2010

This article pleases us.

[nfatt1]

01:06 AM on 12/16/2010

Did they outsource Tweets also ?

[RCoA]

12:11 AM on 12/16/2010

Do reporters deliberately omit the URLs for these kinds of sites? What is that jive? When there's a report about an Al Queda website disseminating hate, the URL is omitted. Why? So that honest news viewers can't be sucked in by the propaganda? Lame.

[MikeyJaii]

09:34 PM on 12/15/2010

Oh China, how you always find a way to make me laugh.

[rcmfla]

09:19 PM on 12/15/2010

I'd expect to see these messages... Hi from China. Everyone happy. Love and Peace. Make good products. Egg rolls good.

[rougebaisers]

06:46 PM on 12/15/2010

WTF? I am boycotting Chinese Food.

[Will Samart]

07:31 PM on 12/15/2010

I don't think China cares, lol

[Raymond Strand]

12:36 PM on 12/16/2010

"Chinese Food" isn't very Chinese in the US. It's about as Italian as Olive Garden or as Mexican as Taco Bell. So you're boycotting food prepared in the US with ingredients from the US made by Americans in a statement against China?