A lot of Chinese people do use twitter and youtube, the reason you don't see them is because its all in Chinese characters so unless you deliberately type it in

A lot of Chinese people do use twitter and youtube, the reason you don't see them is because its all in Chinese characters so unless you deliberately type it in the search bar you would very rarely see recommendations from say the youtube algorithm that will lead you there. I follow some pretty popular vlogs of village life in China with shit ton of subscribers. I can only assume VPN usage in China is a lot more common than most people think.