Weibo vs Twitter

• Source: Global Times
• [18:27 May 18 2011]
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Who's following who

Tencent (all numbers updated as of 5 pm Wednesday)

Name                           followers

1 Liu Xiang (athlete) 16,018,982

2 Ma Yili (mainland actress) 15,809,472

3 Karen Mok (Hong Kong singer) 15,800,570

4 Kai-Fu Lee (former chief of Google China) 15,445,111

5 Kevin Tsai (writer, Taiwan TV show host) 15,269,866

Sina

Name                          followers

1 Yao Chen (actress) 8,181,620

2 Hsu Hsi Ti (Taiwan TV show host) 7,313,605

3 Kevin Tsai (writer, Taiwan TV show host) 6,651,791

4. Zhao Wei (actress) 6,475,431

5. He Jiong (TV show host) 5,998,381

Twitter

Name              followers

1 Lady Gaga 10,126,188

2 Justin Bieber 9,708,306

3 Barack Obama 8,063,640

4 Britney Spears 7,868,485

5 Kim kardashian 7,505,308