The messages would be visible elsewhere in the world and the removal would be clearly marked, Twitter said.

China is already conducting trials of the real-name system in five cities.

The new image service, set to go live on Monday, could drastically change the way the microblogging platform is used.

Baidu retreats from China's booming microblogging market.

Evan Williams is handing over Twitter's CEO title to Chief Operating Officer Dick Costolo, as the microblogging company focuses on generating revenue that is consistent with its massive popularity.

What does the world's wealthiest man do when he can't tweet? For Bill Gates, a trip to China this week has meant a jump to a Chinese micro-blogging platform.

Twitter is recovering from an unspecified technical problem that affected the microblogging service's main site and its APIs (application programming interfaces) for about one hour late Tuesday morning.

Hu Jintao is the first elite Chinese official to open a microblog.

Microblogging site Twitter went offline for a while Friday after hackers calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army apparently managed to change DNS records, redirecting traffic to another Web page.

A Plurk mikroblog-szolgáltatás üzemeltetői szerint a Microsoft ázsiai MSN-üzletága lemásolta szolgáltatásuk felhasználói felületét, és a kód közel 80 százalékát átemelte saját mikroblogjába. A Microsoft elismerte a történteket.

A Google Wawe-re még várni kell a microblogok rajongóinak, addig mindenki érje be az új, igen szimpatikus, magyar csiripelő szolgáltatással.