If a government prevents the spread of certain types of information, how does that influence social networking behavior? Chinese microblogging sites offer a way to find out, say computer scientists.
In July 2009, the Chinese government banned its netizens from accessing Twitter. One month later, an alternative social networking site called Sina Weibo appeared in China. Today, Sina Weibo has more than 140 million users in China, almost as many as Twitter has in the rest of the world combined.
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