Follow5.com Chinese SNS, Microblogging Tool

If you use several SNS / microblogging services to communicate through China’s Internet, consider using Follow5.

What is Follow5?

Follow5.com is a Chinese social network site, and a microblogging tool.

With Follow5, you can manage your usernames/passwords and “sent” messages of 24 microblogging sites, SNS, and sharing sites including Sina Weibo, Tencent QQ Weibo, Twitter, Google Buzz, Kaixin001.com, Xiaonei.com/Renren.com, Douban, Friendfeed, Plurk, Baidu’s Microblog, 9911 and HelloTxt, all through one user interface (UI).

How to Set Up Follow5?

To use Follow5:

  • Sign-up to Follow5 and choose a screen name (e.g. gordonchoicom).
  • Connect Follow5 to up to 24 microblogging services / SNS / sharing sites (mostly Chinese sites) that you previously have signed-up with and allow Follow5 to connect via the OAuth protocol.

Use Follow5 as SNS

When you use Follow5 as an SNS:

  • Find friends and connect to them through “following”.
  • Your friends/connections can be “following” and/or “followers”.
    Gordon Choi on Follow5

Use Follow5 as Twitter-microblogging Tool

When you use Follow5 as a message broadcast tool to several of your microblogging/SNS accounts (e.g. Twitter):

  • You can send up to 200 Chinese characters per message (which is more than Sina Weibo’s and Twitter’s maximum limits on message length) from Follow5.
  • You can send messages to Follow5 through your MSN messenger, Gtalk or QQ messenger accounts.
  • The messages you sent will immediately be synchronized to social media sites/tools including Sina Weibo, Twitter, Google Buzz, Douban, Plurk, RenRen.com and Kaixin001.com.

Comments

One Response to “Follow5.com Chinese SNS, Microblogging Tool”

  1. hs on July 19th, 2011 3:37 pm

    Hi Gordon. I live in Canada and have been unsuccessful ‘binding’ my twitter account and weibo account to follow5. Any advice? For Twitter – I don’t understand how i need a proxy & for weibo i’ve tried as my account number “http://weibo.com/##########” & “##########” + password . But i get the comment ??????????

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