Online Culture

China's leader Hu Jintao recently started microblogging. His microblog on People's Daily's microblogging site gained over 14,000 followers since it was setup yesterday. For comparison, the next most popular microblog on People's Daily has about 2,500 followers.

From a Tom.com article published on Feb 22 (Chinese):

"Yesterday, a new special name appeared on the "People's Microblog" which was launched this month - the country's chairman, Hu Jintao." Read more...

On the right are 50 user profile pics that I random downloaded from Twitter and on the left are 50 random user profile pics from Zuosa. Zuosa is a Chinese-language micro-blogging website like Twitter.

Can you see any differences in online culture between Chinese and English users from this pic alone?

It seems to me that there are a lot more racy pictures on Chinese portals and news sites as compared to English-language sites. To test this, today I checked the homepages of 24 news sites (9 Chinese, 15 English). 5 out of 9 of the Chinese sites had at least one sexy photo while but only 4 out of 15 of the English sites did. Plus, of the 4 English sites with sexy phot Read more...