Twitter, which lets people send bite-size messages to large groups, allows Chinese to quickly disseminate urgent news or even uncomfortable facts. “Twitter can create a faster information flow than any official agency,” says Michael Anti, a journalist in Beijing who has long been at the forefront of the Chinese Internet movement.
推特允许人们将小段信息发送给海量人群，使中国人可以快速传播紧急新闻甚至是令人不安的事实。“推特信息流可以比任何官方机构更加迅速，”长期处于中国互联网运动前沿的北京记者迈克尔·安提说。“这也意味着民众可以比政府更快地获取信息，这确实为共产党带来了真正的危机。”