Blog Tag - Social Media

The Plight of One Drunken Foreigner in Beijing Reminds Us That Masks Are Still Required
With Beijing reporting three days in a row with no new infections as well as the first instance of no new infections nationwide, it appears that...
New Law Authorizes Use of Digital Files in China's Civil Lawsuits
You have the right to remain silent, and anything you type can and will be used against you in a court of law. Or so goes a new law announced by ...
Fake News: China Currently Awash With Stories of Fake Food, Fans, and Cash
Fake food, fake clicks, and fake cash. It seems that China is currently awash with news of forgeries more than usual this week, so we thought we'd...
What Social Media Says About China’s War on Air Pollution
How does the average Chinese person feel about air quality today? It’s a question that seems even more pressing nowadays considering that in 2018,...
Weibo Moves to Battle Fake Interactions as Government Scrutiny Persists
Chinese microblogging service Weibo aims to discourage fake comments and reposts on its platform by limiting its count of the total number of...
6 Lesser Known Wechat Functions You Need in Your Life
WeChat. How could we live without you? Used by practically everyone connected to the internet, it’s not hard to see why this app is the number one...
Trending in Beijing: Hot Pot Quests, Fully Electronic Train Tickets, and D&G Landslide
The fun, the strange, and the what-on-earth-is-this: a wrap-up of top stories in Beijing as told by the trending hashtags, local press, and general...
WeChat Promises to Clean Up Content as Beijing Tightens Crackdown
Chinese social media giant WeChat has pledged to strengthen its self-censorship over sensitive, pornographic, vulgar, and clickbaity content as well...
0 to 2 Million Followers in 3 months: One of Beijing's Newest Expat KOLs Tells Us How
For the generation of millennials currently drowning in student debt, working back-to-back jobs and increasingly unlikely to own their own homes (sob...
DP Convenient Un-Coupling: WeChat Launches Divorce Registration Feature
Whatever happened to good old-fashioned romance? That’s what many a WeChat user will surely ask as they open the “public services” folder on the...
Weibo isn't Dead. It’s China's Public Square
This post comes courtesy of our content partners at TechNode. Weibo, one of China’s most popular social platforms, has been frequently compared to...
7 Apps for Beijing Beer Aficionados And Wine Snobs
With the explosion of Beijing's beer fridge scene comes the following inevitable, horrible situation: you're standing in front of massive fridges...
R The Job Hunt: Social Media Executive, PR and Social Media Lead, Writers Community Manager, Overseas App Operator
Spring is here! Who wants to spend Beijing's breezy and sunny days locked up in a boring, dead-end job, with horrible colleagues you'd rather never...
Wildly Inappropriate WeChat Stickers for God Knows What Occasion
Anyone using WeChat to communicate with friends overseas quickly realizes that for the most part, users outside of China have access to much more...
WeChat Secretary Will Solve All Your Problems
You might have already heard of WeSecretary, the recently-launched service that helps foreigners find whatever they need in Beijing. The idea is...