In my previous article, I briefly touched upon Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo’s mobile ‘look around’ feature while examining Asian diaspora populations near Silicon Valley. That time I was using the messaging apps WeChat and Zalo. This time I’ll focus on the Twitter-like Weibos.
Sina Weibo and its oft-forgotten microblogging rival Tencent Weibo have an even larger array of “hyperlocal” tools than those chat apps. Sina Weibo’s official mobile app has the largest amount of nearby options, including categories of local recommendations for nearby discounts, group buying, food, movies, bars, hotels, and other places of interest. There is also a gallery of all user photos posted nearby.
Scroll further down the screen, and there is a stream of location-tagged posts, where I found 53 postings located within 500 meters of my current location an area of northern California. More...
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