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Weibo is bigger. Wechat too.
by user_named 5y ago
Weibo is bigger. Wechat too.
- tsimionescu 5y agoGood luck buying wechat as someone without Chinese citizenship.
- FerociousTimes 5y agoGood luck buying WeChat without the proper connections to the ruling class in China in the first place.
- reaperducer 5y agoHow much global news comes out of either of those? That's the point of the parent comment. Weido and Wechat may have more users, but they aren't newsmakers. Just like there's more people at a Def Leppard concert than in the White House, but the White House makes news.
- user_named 5y agoThey're not news makers? Yes they are.
- danso 5y agoFacebook is also far far bigger than Twitter. Yet Elon is content with ignoring it, and so was Trump (who is suspended into 2023 [0]) [0] https://www.npr.org/2021/06/04/1003284948/trump-suspended-from-facebook-for-2-years https://www.npr.org/2021/06/04/1003284948/trump-suspended-fr...
- boringg 5y agoFacebook is a dying site and it isn't for sale. Irrelevant to the options.
- danso 5y agoWeibo and Wechat are also not available for sale, so what's your point?
- boringg 5y agoAlso irrelevant to the conversation.
- danso 5y agoMy rebuttal was to this comment, which implied that size was an overriding factor of importance. That comment was a rebuttal to you. So I'm not sure what you even want to argue about. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31110766 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31110766 Please learn how comment threads work.
- bombcar 5y agoFacebook amplifies, it doesn't create. People link to twitter threads from HN all the time, rarely if ever do they link to FB posts. Nobody cares about Facebook, even though it's hugely used it's a dead letter.
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- boringg 5y agoThey are largely irrelevant to the rest of the world as a source of news except to see what the government line is and as a pulse taker of Chinese population tolerance to policy. They are a propoganda news source controlled by the Chinese Government for the Chinese population. Large population for sure, and highly impactful to controlling that population but only viable for the CCP.