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Year-ender: Call it the Year of Weibo
(Photo: China Daily/Wang Xiaoying) China's army of micro-bloggers weave in their responses to events and people, each contributing a thread to the scarf that encompasses modern society. But not all of them might actually exist. China Daily reports. December 8, 2011 -- "The more the number of people, the stronger we are." Thus said Chairman Mao Zedong in 1949 when China's population was about 540 million. Now, the slogan also applies to the cyberspace, China's online population being more than 500 million. And micro-blogging, with an impressive growth rate in 2011, has become one of the most important tools for the Chinese to leverage the wisdom of the crowds. 2010 was dubbed as the "inaugural year" of micro blog, or weibo in Chinese, in China.
