Baidu to shutdown Shuoba in late August
Baidu Inc is to shut down its Twitter-like microblogging platform, Shuoba, on Aug 22. Kaiser Kuo, a Baidu spokesman, declined to give a reason for the closure but industry experts chalked up Shuoba's stringent real name verification features as the reason the service failed to gain much traction with China's netizens. Shuoba competes with Sina's highly popular microblogging service Weibo which has over 140 million users. The firm posted a notice on Shuoba's website claiming that due to business adjustments, Shuoba was shutting down and urged users to back up their personal data.
Although Twitter and Facebook are inaccessible in China, Chinese Internet companies have filled the void with similar microblogging and social networking products.
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