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EnglishSNS in China, Everyone Increases... but Facebook
28
Aug
Aug
Every social network system is growing in China... except facebook, because as we told you before, facebook is blocked in china.
When I see the hard time google is having to gain market shares against baidu (which has about 70% market share here in china), I think facebook is not likely to get back in the competition. When facebook will be accessible again, it will be too late. Specially because chinese users won't go from xiaonei or kaixin001 to facebook if they already have their contacts in these two sns.
Facebook, to get back in the game, will have to buy one of these sns (maybe xiaonei, because xiaonei is a copy of facebook, so users won't have difficulties to adapat to facebook's interface).
Another thaught is... if these sns become bigger and stronger, won't they try to compete with facebook in other countries?
Once more, local players are doing better in china than international ones (I know, with a little help ;o) but still, i think that if you want to be in the chinese market... the best thing you could do is ... coming to China.
China Facebook
8
Jul
Jul
China facebook. Today, Facebook and twitter, probably because of what's going on on the west side of the country, are blocked in china. I am not going to discuss the politics behind this. This is a blog about search engine optimization, and internet marketing, so i am going to stick to that... but don't think i am heartless or I don't care about what is going on.
1) Now imagine you are in shanghai, or beijing, and you run your company on facebook (with a facebook app), well, as long as facebook is blocked, then you have 0 turn over...
2) they want to stop spreading the information... but i am wondering if by blocking facebook, they don't actually boost the spread of information, because the whole world is going to speak about facebook being blocked!
3) Often, people think that china is blocking facebook to stop information broadcasting abroad. actually I think that the main reason is for chinese in china. this is the most important part they need to control... so why don't they stop xiaonei, a facebook copy in china!?
Well, let's hope facebook is going to be accessible again in china in few hours, because it's also a tool for my business...
Edit: we are on the 24 of july, and facebook is till blocked in china. It's probably going to be blocked until october 1st 2009, for the 60th anniversary of the creation of the "People's Republic of China".
China Blocks Twitter and Flickr
2
Jun
Jun
Edit 07/08/2009 :
China blocked twitter again, and facebook, and almost everything that can help information broadcasting.
China blocked twitter and flickr today. We don't know why. Maybe to help its new comers like the chinese competitor of twitter ( fanfou.com ). Still, we lost today two very good seo assets.
Actually, we can continue add message to our twitter by using services like ping.fm , that's how i am right now twitting about it ;o)
But i cannot read my favorite tweets anymore, except by using a proxy.
Edit : China blocked twitter, flickr, hotmail, bing, and youtube was blocked before... so, what's next? keep tuned
