Microsoft’s version of Twitter for China : MSN Juku!!! December 2nd, 2009
Microsoft has launched a microblog / twitter style service in China based on Windows Live Messenger, expanding the social-networking functions linked to the chat software in the Chinese market where it is a hit.
The new service, which is called MSN Juku and is now in beta, lets users post 140-character messages to an update screen that slowly scrolls old messages to the right. The service automatically links users with people on their Live Messenger contact lists, whose updates also appear on the scrolling timeline.
Posts are also stacked top-to-bottom and display only their first few words when they appear close together. Pointing the mouse at a condensed message shows its full version.
The company however claims that it is not a micro-blogging service (which Twitter is). Microsoft said: “Juku is a local innovation developed by MSN China … based on Windows Live Messenger networks.”
Really Steve!!! 
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