If Facebook reenters China, how will it compete!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rumors suggest Facebook will break back into China, but it's success there isn't guaranteed. These entrenched Chinese social networking sites have grown in Facebook's absence, and may give the western newcomer a run for its money.

Facebook has been blocked in China since 2009, when riots in the country’s Xinjiang region led to severe crackdowns on Internet use. Since then, statements from Chinese officials and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg have hinted at the possibility of cooperation between the two, if a compromise between the nation’s overbearing censorship and Facebook’s “openness” can be reached.

Now it looks as though… something is going on. What exactly that may be is still up in the air, but numerous reports say Facebook is working with China to come up with a solution. According to Marbridge Consulting as well as a few blogs, a post on Sina Weibo from Hu Yan Ping, the founder of a Chinese market research firm claims that Facebook will be collaborating with Baidu to build an entirely new social networking site. Ping wrote, “Facebook really is about to enter China, the agreement is signed. A domestic website will work with Facebook to create a new site. This new site it not interlinked with Facebook.com. Will this live or die in China?”

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Google has a mole at Twitter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's a little outlandish to think Google has a spy infiltrating Twitter, but here's our take on the Google-Twitter fiasco.

This is one we tried to ignore for as long as possible, but it just won’t quite go away. Yesterday, TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington lodged a major claim that Google had a mole working at Twitter. According to Arrington, “Multiple sources close to Twitter have said that someone with access to Twitter’s most confidential information, such as who they are interviewing for key executive spots, may be leaking that information directly to Google.”

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Twitter matchfixed with Facebook!!!!!!!!!!!

• By: varmas  •
• April 5, 2011

Twitter is considering adding branded pages to its site, much like LinkedIn and Facebook have done in recent years.

Twitter is having a cash crisis. After years of doing its own thing, the social network is finally deciding that it’s time to make some money. As such, Twitter may add branded pages to its site. Marketing Magazine reports that the pages would work a lot like Facebook Pages, which give brands their own profile page and let them acquire followers and post out updates. CEO Dick Costolo and Adam Bain, president of revenue, are leading the push to add revenue streams to the site.

What we don’t know is how, exactly, the pages will be different from the great number of branded pages businesses have already created for the Website. Twitter already offers Promoted Accounts, which give account holders a place in the site’s Recommended Follower’s lists. Will official branded pages have more information on them, or feature a larger profile picture or more links? We’re interested to find out.

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Twitter Search in Plain English

Here’s how Twitter Search provides information and  creates new opportunities for business feedback, tracking news in real time and discovering trends.

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