Social Computing Lab of HP Labs recently published a paper titledWhat Trends in Chinese Social Media.The paper concludes that:
There are vast differences between the content that is shared on Sina Weibo when compared to Twitter. In China, people tend to use Sina Weibo to share jokes, images and videos and a significantly large percentage of posts are retweets. The trends that are formed are almost entirely due to the repeated retweets of such media content.
This is contrary to what we observe on Twitter, where the trending topics have more to do with current events (in other words, on Twitter that trending topics are mainly caused by sources of other media) and the effect of retweets is not as large. Also, there are for more details....http://www.indiareport.com/India-usa-uk-news/latest-news/1089292/FeaturedArticles/14/54/14
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