Chinese social media sites no mere clones

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SCMP article

Hong Kong News Headlines | Hong Kong's premier newspaper online | SCMP.com

"Copies of Facebook and Twitter improve on the originals, their operators say"

""We copy the product but we never copy the way to promote it, or marketing," he [Dr Lu Gang, observer of online media trends on the mainland] told the audience at Social Media Week, a conference organised by United States-based Crowdcentric Media and its Hong Kong partner Impact Asia.

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""We copy the product but we never copy the way to promote it, or marketing," he [Dr Lu Gang, observer of online media trends on the mainland] told the audience at Social Media Week, a conference organised by United States-based Crowdcentric Media and its Hong Kong partner Impact Asia.

I guess that makes it ok then.