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China: Fanfou is coming back?

Fanfou is a micro-blogging tool similar to twitter which has been closed down for more than 100 days in China. However, many still have hope that it will be back. Chinageeks translated a blog post by He Caitou discussing fanfou users' loyalty towards... ...full story at Global Voices

from Global Voices on Thu, Oct 22 2009

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