Notching up the likes of Bill Gates, Tom Cruise, IMF Chief Christine Lagarde and Indian Embassy, China's own Twitter 'Sina Weibo' is gaining popularity world over, having attracted 250 million subscribers.
Sina Weibo has said that it now has about 450,000 users in the United States out of its total of 250 million as of late November. There is no official record of the nationality of the US users. They could be US citizens, Chinese students or people from other countries, state run
China Daily reported.
Its users included philanthropist Bill Gates of Microsoft, International Monetary Fund Chief Christine Lagarde and actor Tom Cruise, who started using it to step up interaction with Chinese public, the report said.
Lagarde made her Weibo debut in early November, posting her first message which reads: "Hello Sina Weibo, looking forward to sharing updates here."
By the end of the day, Lagarde's account had drawn about 40,000 followers and had more than 1,000 comments. She currently commands 150,000 followers.
Gates is a popular Sina Weibo user, currently with 2.19
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