Comparision of microblogging service between Sina Weibo and Twitter

Microblog is one of the most popular online social networking service, which has tremendous growth all over the world in recent years. As the first microblogging site and most influential social media platform, Twitter has been well documented. Nowadays, the number of Internet user in China take the first place in the world, however the popular Chinese microblogging service Sina Weibo has not been studied. In this paper, we make a comprehensive comparison of Sina Weibo and Twitter in order to identify the similarities and differences between them. Sina Weibo is comparable with Twitter, both are worthy of further study.