X (or formerly known as twitter) experienced a brief worldwide outage last week. Although the social media platform is banned in China, it has created unexpected effects. China’s domestic platform on Weibo It became a topic of discussion and raised the whole country up.
Twitter collapse tops China’s social media
On December 20 Access problems on Twitter happened. Users around the world complained that they could not access the site for approximately two hours and that the home page did not open. It seems that users in China are also affected by this situation.
The outage became a major topic of discussion on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like social media platform. “Twitter crashed” tag became the number one trending topic, with more than 190 million views and more than 100 thousand shares.
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Chinese government internet censorship It is known that Twitter has been banned in the country since 2009. That’s why it’s notable that the Twitter crash went viral in China. Chinese users have been trying to bypass censorship for years VPN applications applying.
Reactions on Weibo show that Twitter and similar platforms continue to be popular in China. Some users even responded to the posts, saying why people were so interested in a site they couldn’t officially access.
This interest in Twitter has created some controversy with Chinese platforms. WeChat and Weibo are known to have heavy controls and algorithms. Users seem to be looking for an alternative to China’s firewall.
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