Sina sees 60 pct of Weibo users verified by deadline The logo of Sina Corp's Chinese microblog website "Weibo" is seen on a ...
Sina sees 60 pct of Weibo users verified by deadline
The logo of Sina Corp's Chinese microblog website "Weibo" is seen on a screen in this photo illustration taken in Beijing September 13, 2011. REUTERS/Stringer
China's Sina Corp estimates 60 percent of the users of its popular microblogging Weibo platform would have registered their real identities by a March 16 deadline in compliance with government regulations, a company spokesman said on Monday.
Weibo, which operates like Twitter and allows users to post short messages and gather followers, has more than 250 million users.
In December, the Beijing city government issued rules giving microblog operators based in the city, which include Sina, three months to ensure users register their real identities.
Users must link their mobile phone numbers to their Weibo account and only those verified will be allowed to post messages.
"We estimate that by the deadline, the majority of our users, about 60 percent of them would have successfully registered their identities," Liu Qi, a Sina spokesman, said.
(Agencies)
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