All the latest UK technology news, reviews and analysis
|
|
|
22 Feb 2010
Chinese president Hu Jintao opened a micro-blogging account today, although those hoping that the news will herald a more liberal approach to freedom of speech in the country are likely to be disappointed.
The blog will be available only to people who subscribe to China's state run People's Daily newspaper.
People's Daily Online launched the t.people.com.cn micro-blogging service at the beginning of February. It is the only such service run by a Chinese news site.
Twitter has been blocked in China since June last year, as were a host of social networking services, including Flickr, Bing, Hotmail and YouTube.
Those with access to Hu's blog say that he has not made any public comments so far, although he already has thousands of followers.
A report in The Times said that many of his followers had called for the unblocking of Twitter.
Latest stories from Software
Related videos
Related articles
Related jobs
Poll
Are you confident that the UK's IT infrastructure is secure from attack in the wake of the Flame malware revelations?
V3 examines the key strengths and weaknesses of Samsung's latest iPhone killer
Connect with V3.co.uk
Social networking is almost ubiquitous. This white paper examines the benefits and risks and it looks at the different ways companies can reconcile them
The importance of understanding your infrastructure
C#, WPF, Silverlight, UI Development, Software Engineers...
Candidate required who is used to working in a client...
Build Change Release Manager / Build Change Manager...
IT Service Desk Manager / Liverpool / Up to £60,000...
Keep up to date with the latest products, services and technologies from the world's leading IT companies. IThound.com brings you over 2,000 white papers, case studies and analyst reports.
Do you agree?