Twitter's controversial head of China leaves after eight months
Summary: Twitter's manager for China, whose appointment just eight months ago sparked controversy, has announced her resignation. Kathy Chen, appointed in April as general manager for the China region made the announcement on her own Twitter account she stated the following; "Now that the Twitter APAC team (Asia-Pacific team in Singapore) is working directly with Chinese advertisers, this is the right time for me to leave the company' Like other Western platforms such as YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, Twitter is inaccessible in mainland China, blocked by the communist regime's vast system of internet censorship. Unable to reach local users, Twitter has tried to persuade Chinese companies and media to open accounts to reach a global audience.
[]China region had grown almost 400 per cent.
[] Twitter cut nine per cent of its global workforce and as the company struggles to attract new users.
[] Twitter is home to a very active community of Chinese intellectuals and dissidents posting from abroad and also from within the country through the use of virtual private networks.
My opinion: It is becoming harder for the chines government is becoming very strict on their citizens, they are limited their sources on what their people are allowed to visit and can not visit. Twitter is very open and controversial, it allows discussion to be open and wider issues to be seen by trends and hashtags, by China blocking out Twitter is making it harder for the people to be opened to such wide issues and be engaged to external sources, which i think is being very unreasonable.
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