Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Chinese police adopt micromessages

More than 500 police stations in China have opened accounts on sites micromessages to improve the image of police as well as communications with the public, reports, Tuesday, Jan. 4, the official press. Last month, Meng, Minister of Public Security, had prompted the police to embrace the new social networks to open accounts and micro-blogging.

Even if the Chinese government blocking Twitter, the leading global service instant messaging, since it encourages officials recently microblogs to post on other similar systems in order to highlight the policies. Since 2009, reports the Beijing Review site, several important players in the Chinese Web, such as portal sina.

com, or business Tencent and Netease, have launched their own application, and with millions of users. 450 MILLION INTERNET USERS account The "Beijing Security" is now followed by 330 000 people, Xinhua news agency said. Information provided to police by instant messaging services have also been helped investigators solve crimes, according to the website of People's Daily.

This initiative comes as China has announced it now had 450 million Internet users, over 20% in one year. The Web site remains redacted politically sensitive and Beijing is closely monitoring the community of Internet users to prevent the organization of dissent.

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