Twitter is blocked in China

Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: “What are you doing?”. But can anyone answer me if Twitter is blocked who will answer this question? And another bad news Twitter is blocked in China.

Blocking Twitter is no more surprise, as we all know that YouTube has been blocked for some time and also Wikipedia was blocked for a while, it’s gradually become more available.

However today Chinese authorities have come down like a tonne of bricks on a number of services including Twitter, Flickr, Bing, Live.com, Hotmail.com, Blogger and a number of other sites (but MSN messenger seems fine).

Many websites don’t have Chinese versions, so very it’s hard to tell that how many people will be affected by this act, but it is very sad, I don’t get any solid reason of blocking these sites. Do you?

The latest news said that the Twitter API has not been affected as badly as the Web site, making API based Twitter applications better placed in China.

Kaiser Kuo, a Chinese-American writer and consultant in Beijing working with Youku told Techcrunch via direct message after the system shut down completely using a VPN that:

Mimi Xu, a China/San Francisco based product dev and entrepreneur who Tweets as MissXu, said:

And another latest update is that Blogspot and Youtube remain blocked.