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Twitter in China (Cloned of course)

The Pacific Ocean appeared to protect China from the Twitter craze hitting the US and Europe over the last year.

No more!

(Note for Luddite friends: Twitter is a San Francisco micro-blogging phenome that has thousands of people sending 160 character sms messages to each other. It is weird, yes, but also somewhat addictive.)

China has Twitter-ers both in English and in Chinese, but the local specialty of knock-offs has already kicked in. Adam J. Schokora of Edelman Digital speaks in this video about Twitter knock-offs Fanfou, Jiwai and the biggest of them all, Zuosa.

Schokora estimates that while there are only 7,000 Chinese-language Twitter-ers, Zuosa has more than 600,000.

Jiwai has the best looking homepage, but none of them have Twhirl-like offline client. How do you say “Business Opportunity” in Chinese?

To follow China Twitters in English, check out the Chinalist compiled by Christine Lu.

Technorati Tags: adam schokora, China, christine lu, edelman, Shanghai, twitter, zuosa

© 2008 Thomas Crampton.