News We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #49 9 Oct 2012 Hootsuite now supports Sina Weibo The battle for the Chinese social media market just got a little more interesting. Social media dashboard, Hootsuite, recently rolled out support for Sina Weibo and a Traditional Chinese language version of its product shortly after its startup competitor, Hubblr, added support for Sina Weibo and Renren to its tool. Though […]
News Five Friday Facts #48 5 Oct 2012 China’s not on the list of Top 20 Twitter nations after all Last week, we asked you to watch this space for updates on a GlobalWebIndex report that indicated that Twitter had 35.5 million users in China in the 2nd quarter of 2012. That number has since been refuted in a The Next Web article in […]
News We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #48 2 Oct 2012 WeChat launches in Indonesia China-built cross platform messaging application, WeChat (known as Weixin in China) has launched in Indonesia. The potential is immense as Indonesia’s the world’s 4th most populous country with a population of 237 million people, slightly larger than WeChat’s worldwide user base of 200 million. The latest development is expected to put […]
News Five Friday Facts #47 28 Sep 2012 China is Twitter’s most active country despite being blocked? Recent GlobalWebIndex data indicated that there were 35.5 million monthly active Twitter users in China in the second quarter of 2012, while India was next in line with 33 million and the US in third with 22.9 million monthly active Twitter users. This is an interesting […]
News We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #47 25 Sep 2012 Whatsapp may be ousted by WeChat? Tech In Asia recently assessed how Whatsapp measured up against the competition. Whatsapp has not evolved much since its launch a few years ago whilst competing apps such as Tencent’s WeChat (aka Weixin in Chinese), Line and Kakaotalk have evolved to incorporate social elements. WeChat is packed with features (available […]
News Five Friday Facts #46 21 Sep 2012 Asia is Facebook’s largest continent Asia has surpassed Europe as Facebook’s largest continent, with more than 242 million registered users, ahead of Europe by nearly 1 million users. This has occurred even though merely 6.26% of people in Asia are on Facebook, as compared to 29.72% of Europe’s population and 44.63% of North America. Of […]
News We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #46 18 Sep 2012 Buy your own Weibo clone Tech In Asia recently reported chancing upon a Weibo clone, named JiShiGou, intended for sale to corporations seeking to incorporate microblogging technology into their operational workflow. Hosted on the corporation’s servers, the product offers integration with Tencent and Sina Weibo, in addition to other Chinese social networks. What’s the price tag? […]
News Five Friday Facts #45 14 Sep 2012 Videos hit the advertising sweet spot in China Much has been written and said about economic powerhouse China and the promise its massive wired userbase holds for marketers. Here are some numbers that reflect the size of the potential market as at the end of 2011: 500 million internet users, 325 million online video viewers, […]
News Top Facebook Pages in Singapore – August 2012 12 Sep 2012 Last week, we reported the top performing Facebook pages in Asia for the month of August in India, Indonesia, The Philippines, Pakistan and Malaysia. Socialbakers have just released the infographic for Singapore. Caltex Singapore emerged as the brand page with the highest engagement for the month of August with an impressive daily page engagement rate […]
News We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #45 11 Sep 2012 Facebook to remain fenced out by Great Firewall of China In spite of its corporate mission to “connect the whole world”, Facebook’s grandiose plan to dominate the wired world wouldn’t be complete without Chinese users, who make up 33% of the world population. Access to Facebook has been blocked in China since 2009 by what […]
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