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Thomas Crampton’s social media team put togethere few infographics on how social media work in countries such as China, Japan or Korea. I’m just going to show you the Chinese one here, and if you wish, you can always go over to the original link for additional information.

I’d like the visual representation, so you can have a quick scan at a glance and make a comparison with what’s going on in the western world. It is not absolutely comprehensive, and may be a bit outdated, as the social media landscape moves fast and this was made on August 2010.

Bearing this in mind, we thank you Thomas Crampton, from whom we “borrowed” the following image.

For comments, they are always more than welcome, so please do.

I know you must think what does this have to do with HR? It does. HR is human resources, it’s people.

Twitter is connecting millions of people everyday and this news is particularly interesting as Oprah Winfrey, one eloquent American star, has been surpassed in the Twitter race for influence by a Chinese actress who doesn’t even use Twitter!

That’s funny, right?

Oprah was the tenth largest tweeter on Earth, and is now being replaced by Yao Chen, a Chinese actress who is the most followed person on Weibo, China’s equivalent to Twitter.

“This is the first time that the ten most followed microbloggers were not the ten most followed twitterers and is a great demonstration of both the size of China’s online population and the impressive growth of the Chinese platform” writes Thomas Crampton.

Weibo has around 50 million users while the US-based Twitter, which is blocked for use in China, is estimated to have over 200 million users.

Apparently, one of the main reasons why Oprah lost her place in the Top 10 is her lack of committment to tweeting (she only tweets few times a month) whereas Yao Chen is very active on Weibo, posting daily and including pictures in her messages (a feature that perhaps should be included in Twitter too).

Source of image Thomas Crampton post