Positioning social networks: Sina Weibo targets information, Tencent connection
Tessa Thorniley
One of the most Tweeted photographs from the first morning of the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC), held in Beijing in May 2014, featured a lonely looking Sina Weibo mascot hovering around a quiet booth.
Chinese and Western netizens couldn't resist pointing out that Sina Weibo may be feeling dejected because its Twitter-like microblogging site has come under growing pressure from WeChat, a messaging app which has notched up almost 400m monthly active users.
"Weibo guy looks sad, I think he knows that WeChat is eating his...