Today, sources disclosed news to the world network that in June twitter Sina would also introduce twitter service which has a name of Sina Friends. Before this, Chinese domestic market has more than ten websites similar to twitter, such as, Shuo Shuo, Fan Fou, Ji Wai and so on. Their main advantages are good supports to the Chinese language, as well as the binding to domestic mobile communications service providers and real-time chat tools. The leading sites have not been involved in this business yet.

Reporters contacted relevant Sina staff on the matter, Sina said they did not know this news .

Twitter is a variant of instant messaging, which allows users to send the their latest updates and ideas in the form of text messages sent to cell phones and personalized Web sites groups, rather than the individuals. In 2006, a blog technology leader-founder of blogger.com-Evan Williams created a new company-Obvious-launched a Twitter service. Initially, the service was only used for sending text messages to the friends’ mobile phones. By the end of 2006, Obvious upgraded the service, the user need not to enter their own phone numbers but to receive and send messages by real-time information services and personalized Twitter site.

The websites supported by Tudou’s “SNS video-sharing shortcuts” including five popular SNS communities at home and abroad: Kaixin.com, education net, Douban, Facebook, Twitter. Users of the site can just click on the corresponding Share button to open a new window to the site or a broadcasting page to share the SNS video with their friends.

Huang Huiwen, vice president of market and community department, said that as an open sharing platform and promotion of the spirit of community sharing, they will continue to enhance the user viscosity, try more functions of combination with other web applications to create a win-win model.

There are indications that Google and Microsoft are competing for the provision of advertising services transactions to Twitter. In the first quarter analyst conference call of Google, Schmidt did not disclose the details of the negotiations, but praised highly of Twitter, and expressed its wishes to reach advertising co-operation transactions with Twitter or its competitors, “Twitter proves that the innovation in Silicon Valley did not stop.”

Schmidt pointed out that the problem is how to make use of innovation for income-generating. There are many start-up companies like Twitter, they can be used to release product information, marketing information and other real-time information, and release the text ads or video ads, “I do not know about their strategies, but I think they can use this strategy. We are willing to have co-operations with Twitter and all other similar kind of companies. “

Schmidt said, Twitter’s success is: It indicates that people are willing to communicate, communication can be in many different ways.