What makes China’s social media apps so unique?

ByJerome Smith
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53765520

China’s social media apps have evolved in a very different ways to those in the West.

Long term blocking by the Chinese government of US tech giants like Google and Facebook is partly responsible, but there are other reasons too.

From Kuaishou which has made a name for itself with China’s rural population to Tencent’s WeChat which has a user base of over one billion people,

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