Comments on: Chaintweeting over the GFW to Twitter

By: Fernando

Fernando — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:20:21 +0000

@Kanning: Yes I have noticed that at least the website is blocked, I'm not sure about Symbian but I have been using fring for android during the past month and it works fine for me, I downloaded it through the android market

cheers!

By: Kanning

Kanning — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:55:13 +0000

But Fernando, as of October this year, Fring servers are also blocked in China. Though some ipod touch / iphone copies of Fring can still log on. Fring is blocked for Symbian phones

By: Fernando

Fernando — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:03:01 +0000

Hi John,

I know that this is an old post but since I know you use an android phone you can use fring to post twits since your twitt is first send to the fring servers and then to the twitter server

Cheers!

By: fifty 5 :: an adam j. schokora production » Blog Archive » friday 5 | microblogging after the death of twitter & fanfou in china

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:16:25 +0000

[...] microblog through an unblocked third party and then to Twitter. John Pasden at Sinosplice has details. Even with open APIs, it takes motivated programmers to harness the system for everyday users, and [...]

By: Laotang

Laotang — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:28:47 +0000

@John: You are welcome.

I found ipredator to be faster than alonweb. If you have a Mac and intend to use Openvpn (like Alonweb) I suggest having a look at "Viscosity", a really nice piece of client software.

Oh, btw, those only missing twitter in China should check out itweet, which is a (not yet blocked) online twitter client. Really nicely done and used by many Chinese friends.

By: John Wieja

John Wieja — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:22 +0000

to Laotang- thanks for the alonweb tip. I just set it up. Really easy.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:17:48 +0000

That’s ridiculously complex for a layman and ridiculously non-complex for someone ‘web enabled’. I would imagine most revolutionaries are ‘web enabled’ or on a VPN. What was the point of a web-block?

By: Laotang

Laotang — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:52:57 +0000

Ok, that’s a nice hack. However, how do you fetch replies to your tweets? Actually I don’t see the point of this crippled version of the internets and therefore I’m using various vpn services. Cheap options in this section would include Alonweb (they have a free option) or iPredator (5€/month). Although both are not top of the line choices they allow for unblocked use of youtube, facebook, twitter etc…

By: chipmunkgeek

chipmunkgeek — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:03:47 +0000

I was also looking for a way to SMS tweet from my cell phone out here. About two months ago, I came across the Fanfou to Twitterfeed to Twitter solution. I, too, was surprised when, last Thursday, my 2 Fanfou tweets from my cell phone... did not show up anywhere. Fanfou was gone!

With that option gone, I will be sure to check out this zuosa to buboo.tw solution. Thanks for the tip!

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:02:00 +0000

John, would something like this help, by posting via email … ? http://twitterreply.com/