Sina Weibo was announced at BlackBerry Jam Asia 2013, and we got to talk with one of the developers to see what's up. For those unfamiliar, Weibo is China's biggest social network. Its closest analogue would be Twitter, but you've also got a Facebook-style "Like" mechanism in place.
Running through the app, everything is smooth, responsive, and laid out sensibly, which are all things you want for your go-to social network, whatever it happens to be. There's system-level Accounts support, but not place in the Hub just yet - that's coming in a future update. Images are supported well with in-line viewing and uploading from your device.
How many Weibo users do we have here anyhow? Should we start brushing up on our Mandarin and kick open a CrackBerry account? The BB10 will be going live in the next couple of days.
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Checking out Sina Weibo's official BlackBerry 10 app
I've always thought that BlackBerry are making a huge mistake not pushing their phones in China a lot harder. They have a weird kind of prestige over here cause they are rare. They should be able to turn that into them being something of a status symbol the same way iPhones are at the moment. Just off the top of my head, it shouldn't be that hard to simply put up some adverts of Obama (who the Chinese love) using his BlackBerry and point out that he's not an iPhone user.
Great! Hope to see the new weibo as soon as possible.
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I'll get onto weibo too.
That will be so awesome if there is a CB official account on Weibo! LOL.
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I want this app, when is it released?
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yeah definitely, open an official account, and you'll be amazed by just how many BB and CB fans out there.
CB should have an account on SINA
Weibo.
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Sina weibo data right now:
Blackberry : 98,670 followers including me,
nokia : 1,488,088 followers,
apple : 2,186,629 followers,
Samsung : 1,354,625 followers,
Explain
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Right now on Wiebo these companies have that many followers.
--Q10 and Canadian all the way! Posted via CB10 on 10.2.0.1443. #IChooseBlackBerry10
I like it, nice and I want it on Z30.
millions chinese use that. you can simply get millions followers. Some celebrities got 20 mil followers
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count me in, I use weibo everyday!!! :)
Yep,
I am so going to buy Z30.
Black or White?
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What's difference between Weibo and Weico?
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Is the same thing as "blaq" and "twitter"
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Only in mandarin? No english?
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I wonder if it is horribly censored
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Also insecure as hell
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Pretty damn censored. They are all over the "tweets" and remove everything they don't like.
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Of course they are, but you will be fine like rest of us.
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You should have a try yourself. Those are just opinions and may be biased.
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Never heard of it before the CB mentions.
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I have Crackberry and Sina Weibo account. Please bridge those accounts~！
#IChooseBlackBerry10
I use Wei xin and QQ, have a Weibo account, BlackBerry if you want to push BlackBerry in China, you better get on board.
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Sure, you want to do it early.
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I use wechat as an alternative chinese social network oh and qq too
Yes! Also I strongly recommend that crackberry should get a Weibo official account, so that u can announce the news to Asia countries. :D
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Or at least so no one takes the name & pretends to be CB ;)
Z30 :)
That was the most interesting part of this article for me too.
Wants! We wants!
This is how you CB10, son!
I know, I know. Getting some time with a white Z30 this aft. Stay tuned!
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Er... 95% of weibo's users are from china. that doesn't equate to asia. Cheers :)
3 BBs in 3 years. 9000 > 9900 > Q10. send from Q10
Nice.
--Q10 and Canadian all the way! Posted via CB10 on 10.2.0.1443. #IChooseBlackBerry10
It would be better if it's about Wechat. :)
他们有。
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With moment support.