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  2. Twitter - Wikipedia

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    Twitter was a social media website based in the United States. With over 500 million users, it was one of the world's largest social networks, and before its acquisition by Elon Musk, it was one of the top five most-visited websites in the world. [4] Users could share short text messages, images, and videos in " tweets " ( posts ), and like or ...

  3. TikTok - Wikipedia

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    TikTok, whose mainland Chinese counterpart is Douyin, is a short-form video hosting service owned by Chinese internet company ByteDance.It hosts user-submitted videos, which can range in duration from three seconds to 60 minutes.

  4. Youku - Wikipedia

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    Youku Tudou Inc. Youku Tudou Inc. (formerly Youku Inc. ), doing business as Youku [5] ( Chinese: 优酷; lit. 'excellent (and) cool'), [6] is a video hosting service based in Beijing, China. It operates as a subsidiary of Alibaba Group Holding Limited. Youku has its headquarters in the Sinosteel Plaza in Haidian District, Beijing. [citation needed]

  5. Google China - Wikipedia

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    Gǔgē. Google China is a subsidiary of Google. Once a popular search engine, most services offered by Google China were blocked by the Great Firewall in the People's Republic of China. In 2010, searching via all Google search sites, including Google Mobile, was moved from mainland China to Hong Kong .

  6. WeChat - Wikipedia

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    WeChat or Weixin in Chinese ( Chinese: 微信; pinyin: Wēixìn ( listen ⓘ); lit. 'micro-message') [a] is a Chinese instant messaging, social media, and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. First released in 2011, it became the world's largest standalone mobile app in 2018 [4] [5] with over 1 billion monthly active users.

  7. History of Twitter - Wikipedia

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    Twitter's origins lie in a "daylong brainstorming session" held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Jack Dorsey, then an undergraduate student, introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group. [1] [2] The original project code name for the service was twttr, an idea that Evan Williams ...

  8. China - Wikipedia

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    China, [h] officially the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), [i] is a country in East Asia. With a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the world's second-most populous country after India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land.

  9. Censorship of YouTube - Wikipedia

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    As of September 2012, countries with standing national bans on YouTube include China, Iran, and Turkmenistan. Due to disputes between GEMA and YouTube over royalties, many videos featuring copyrighted songs were inaccessible in Germany. After an agreement was made between the companies in November 2016, these videos became accessible.