Description

Follow Sina Weibo in English, it is yourpersonal channel to expand your social network to China. It’s afull English app assisting non-Chinese readers like you to engagewith Chinese social media – beginning with Sina Weibo where you canget a deeper understanding of Chinese culture by staying on top ofthe first hand news posted by local media, bloggers, celebrities,plus connecting with your business partners, friends and fans inChina.

You need a Sina Weibo account to use this app, if you haven’t,we have developed a guide to help you. http://www.surroundapp.asia/how-to-sign-up-for-sina-weibo/

After logging in, you can view your Weibo timeline, check outeach post and turn the Chinese post into English by simply tappingthe ‘translate’ button. You can also search your friends andinteract with them by clicking ‘reply’, ‘repost’ and ‘comment’ ontheir posts. We will continue to improve the app with more featureslike Suggestions on who to follow, Image Upload, Slang translation,Human translation, and take it beyond Sina Weibo to Tencent Weibo,WeChat, RenRen, QZone.

Key Features:
• English interface throughout the app
• Viewing your Weibo timeline
• Auto translate Chinese Weibo post into English
• Translation of simplified and traditional Chinese into English bybasic machine translation
• Write a post and translate that into Chinese, you can post inboth languages.
• Reply, Repost and Comment on Weibo posts in English orChinese
• Search people 
• Follow/unfollow people

More features on the roadmap:
• Image upload
• Suggestions on who to follow
• Translation of comments
• Slang translation
• Human translation
• Other Chinese social media platforms like Tencent Weibo, WeChat,RenRen, QZone

We are aware on the difficulties in having Chinese machinetranslated into English, we are not in the market to solve that,but we want to give you some feeling where a post is about. We areworking on an enhanced machine translation function.

We are constantly developing and your comments on the currentbuild are very important to us. You can send us feedback in thefollowing ways:
• Tell us your comments here: http://www.surroundapp.asia/feedback/
• Send feedback to us inside Surround App (more…)
• Email us at [email protected]

Have fun following Weibo in English today!
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