Comments on: Stingy characters – are Chinese microblogs more generous than Twitter? http://www.asiadigitalmap.com/2009/12/stingy-characters-%e2%80%93-are-chinese-microblogs-more-generous-than-twitter/ Social Media & Word of Mouth Marketing in the Asia Pacific Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:03:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jeremy Webb http://www.asiadigitalmap.com/2009/12/stingy-characters-%e2%80%93-are-chinese-microblogs-more-generous-than-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-1014 Jeremy Webb Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:12:52 +0000 http://www.asiadigitalmap.com/?p=1296#comment-1014 Oops, maybe I should add something too this... I am not sure how long this has been the case, but while Weibo allows 140 Chinese characters in a post, you can actually enter up to 280 Roman characters. If the different character allowances are intended to give writers of English and Chinese equal opportunity to express meaning, it would suggest Sina thinks Chinese microblogging is TWICE as generous as microblogging in English. Oops, maybe I should add something too this…

I am not sure how long this has been the case, but while Weibo allows 140 Chinese characters in a post, you can actually enter up to 280 Roman characters. If the different character allowances are intended to give writers of English and Chinese equal opportunity to express meaning, it would suggest Sina thinks Chinese microblogging is TWICE as generous as microblogging in English.

]]> By: Taite11 http://www.asiadigitalmap.com/2009/12/stingy-characters-%e2%80%93-are-chinese-microblogs-more-generous-than-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-889 Taite11 Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:30:37 +0000 http://www.asiadigitalmap.com/?p=1296#comment-889 Totally. I translate Chinese tweets to English from time to time and it can be quite tricky to choose what to include and what not to! Totally. I translate Chinese tweets to English from time to time and it can be quite tricky to choose what to include and what not to!

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