Twitter wants to do more than make their presence felt in China, they want to compete with Weibo.

Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter said that they would love to have their presence felt in China. China is currently the world’s largest Internet market with more than 500 million users but many western mainstream websites including Google and Facebook are finding it hard to capture a market share since time immemorial.

China blocks overseas social networking properties like Facebook and Twitter, Google on the other hand is left to dust by Baidu, a Chinese search engine. Weibo is a micro-blogging platform similar to Twitter.

Dorsey stressed that for starters they must be allowed to compete with Weibo. That translates to unblocking Twitter on China. Dorsey made this statement during the All Things Digital AsiaD technology conference in Hong Kong.

Twitter and other websites like Google and Facebook are still accessible to China – through a proxy that is. China’s decision to block these non-local web properties is political in nature. Censorship in China is a serious

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While fanboys from the most parts of the world are disappointed with Apple and Tim Cook not giving them the new iPhone 5 that tech blogs have been hyping about for at least the past few weeks, there is one place on Earth that already has iPhone 5 and that’ll be no other than China.

Before you complain about Apple favoring China you should know that the iPhone 5 we’re talking about is a pirated product.

The latest iPhone 5 is currently on sale in China. That shouldn’t be a surprise since the country is known for counterfeit products selling cheap versions of almost every known Western brand of clothes, perfume, movies, toys and of course gadgets, but to come up with something that’s not even on the market is something newsworthy.


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