Sina Weibo started testing English page. At first, they target to Southeast Asian countries.

From the year before last, there were rumors that Sina Weibo will start providing English pages in the near future. I'm going to forget that rumor, but they suddenly published their English page for the test.

Because they started preparing the English page a moment ago, actually there are not so many the part that was already translated to English.
Sina Weibo now supports simplified Chinese character and two traditional Chinese character(Taiwan and Hongkong) on their service. And the user can change these three languages at the lower right of top page, but English is not still added at this moment.

A staff of Sina Weibo said that they will not provide this English page to over the world in the early stage, they will provide this to only Southeast Asian countries.

I think this strategy makes sense. Because in Southeast Asian countries, especially in Indonesia, Facebook or LINE, WeChat now started to be welcomed, and their users are rapidly increasing, so it can be said that there is a lot of chance to expand their users.
So it's better that they will widely provide English pages to some Southeast Asian countries at first. And if there will be the specific country that welcome their service, it's better that they will start the second stage of localization.

As I mentioned before, the growth rate of Weibo users are little bit decreasing. So Sina and other Weibo vendor may accelerate the advance into overseas markets this year.


Source => cnBeta, Sina Weibo English test page

Tencent got more than 50% revenue from the online game business.

Tencent recently published their financial statement in the second quarter. According to the report, the revenue from online game business accounted for more 50% of the total.

Online Ads revenue (Blue)            879.7 million RMB (8.3%)
Online Game revenue (Yellow)  5564.7 million RMB (52.9%)
Community or Open Platform revenue(Green)  2221.9 million RMB (21.1%)
Mobile or Telecom value-added service(red)  929.0 million RMB (8.8%)
EC business revenue (Purple)  857.5 million RMB (8.1%)
Other revenue  74.4 million RMB (0.8%)


I reported before the comparison infographic of Tencent and Facebook, the most interesting thing is comparison of its revenue percentage. Because the recent revenue of Facebook was accounted for 84% from Ads on their service.

Recently Tencent has a bigger market capitalization than Facebook Inc, but I'm interested that which company have bigger chance in the future.


Source => Eguan

Over 150 billion pictures were already registered on Qzone. [INFOGRAPHIC]

Qzone published an infographic that is written about pictures on their service.

On Qzone was already registered over 150 billion pictures.

Average 200 million pictures are registered on Qzone per a day, and 360 million pictures were registered at the maximum in a day. According to the Mashable article, on Facebook is registered about 300 million pictures per a day, so it can be said that there are not so much difference between them.




The ratio of male to female is 48% and 52%.






About the ratio of age, the range of 21 to 30 years old are the biggest ratio.







40% of user published their pictures to everyone, and 24% of users published their pictures to only them selves, and 23% of user set the QA to access those picture, and 13% of users published their pictures to only their friends.








53% of users registered their pictures from mobile, and 25% of users use the digital camera, and 22% of users use a single‐lens reflex camera.








But about the number of pictures per a user, the average of using digital camera user is the largest, it is 23.5 pictures per a user.













I reported before about "Tencent v.s. Facebook", as far as I can see it and this infographic, it still can be said that there is not so much difference between them :)


Source => TechWeb

Tencent V.S. Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC]

Below is an infographic that are compared to Tencent and Facebook.























- How old are their company?
Tencent   14 years old
Facebook   8 years old

- How old are each CEOs?
Tencent(Ma Huateng)          40
Facebook(Mark Zackerberg)  28

- How much users do they have?
Tencent     750 million users
Facebook    900 million users

- How much are there active users?
Tencent   170M online users at once
Facebook  530M active users per a day

- Total Sales
Tencent    4.5 billion dollars
Facebook  3.7 billion dollars

- Net Profit
Tencent   1.6 billion dollars
Facebook  1.0 billion dollars

- Listing Financing
Tencent     0.2 billion dollars
Facebook  18.4 billion dollars

- Cash
Tencent    1.8 billion dollars
Facebook 3.91 billion dollars

- Market Value
Tencent     53.14 billion dollars
Facebook  104.81 billion dollars

- Growth rate of total sales
Tencent      45%
Facebook  46.8%

- Growth rate of net profit
Tencent    26.7%
Facebook  39.4%

- Ads revenue
Tencent    0.32 billion dollars(7%)
Facebook  3.15 billion dollars(85%)

- Game revenue
Tencent     2.5 billion dollars(55%)
Facebook   0.5 billion dollars(13%)

- EC revenue
Tencent    0.18 billion dollars
Facebook   few?

- The rate of mobile users
Tencent    50%
Facebook  50%



- Developer
Tencent    300000 developers, 40000 apps
Facebook  1000000 developers, 550000 apps

- Main products
Tencent    QQ instant messenger, QQ space, QQ game, QQ Weibo, Mobile payment...
Facebook  Facebook.com, FreiendFeed, FacebookPlatform, Instagram

- Employees
Tencent     20000+
Facebook   3539

- Entered market
Tencent     China, Russia, Indonesia, India, Korea, U.S.
Facebook   100+ nations


Original article => DCCI Internet Data Center

Chinese social media information sharing ranking report.

Jiathis published "Chinese social media information sharing ranking report in March, 2012".

                    　    Share        Click Rate
 #1 QQ Zone         12.95%         47.31%
 #2 Sina Weibo        8.35%         16.88%
 #3 Tencent Weibo   6.98%         13.49%
 #4 Renren             3.95%          3.17%
 #5 Kaixin              3.08%          3.15%
 #6 JianHu             2.16%          0.02%
    (Taobao SNS)
 #7 Sohu Weibo       2.07%          0.21%
 #8 Wangyi Weibo    1.76%          0.69%
 #9 Douban            1.67%          3.49%
 #10 Pengyou          1.60%         0.77%
    (Tencent SNS)
 ...

 #12 MSN               1.25%          0.16%

 ...

 #18 Facebook         0.66%          0.74%





Original text => Jiathis