Accessing Twitter from China via Linkedin (Proxy/VPN not required).

Jul 21, 2010

Rand ⋅ China Social Media ⋅ China, facebook, Linkedin, Online Communities, Social network, Social network service, twitter, Virtual private network ⋅ 12 comments

Accessing Twitter from China via VPN or proxy takes forever, so recently I discovered a way to get around it by accident. This happened while I was tinkering with my Linkedin account, and discovered that Linkedin’s twitter plugin “Tweets” will allow you to access Twitter direct from China sans proxy/VPN.

This is pretty cool, as now I’ve got two social networks in one interface, without the need for s…l…o…w VPN access. All I need now is a Facebook plugin and I’ll be back in SNS heaven with Linkedin cutting a hole through China’s great firewall.

So… much… spam…

Rand

Rand previously worked for Axciom and McCann Erickson in China before creating BA360 in 2005. In 2009 Rand founded Resonance China for which he won the “Internationalist Innovator of the Year” award. Rand currently oversees business development, client campaign strategy and engagement creative. Rand’s clients span start-up entrepreneurs to global brands; and partnerships with local and global 4A agencies. Rand created the semi-popular China advertising blog Littleredbook in 2008, and has been interviewed by Reuters, CNBC, BBC, Financial Times, China Confidential, Women's Wear Daily, USC's US-China Today, and numerous global companies and universities; has spoken at the UC Berkeley Asia Business Conference, the Search Engine Strategies (SES) Conference and Expo, the L2 China Clinic in NY, served as a judge for the Global Effie Awards, and served as panelist at the Effie Awards Social Media Roundtable and is a member of the Meihua Advertising Hall of Fame.

12 Comments

thomas
Jul 21, 2010 @ 16:11:36

Well that’s LinkedIn blocked……..

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- Rand
  Jul 21, 2010 @ 16:13:28
  
  …What’s Linkedin blocked?
  
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- Morgid
  Oct 23, 2010 @ 00:30:33
  
  Linkedin cutting a hole through China’s great firewall.
  I think that’s impossible.
  I found a very fast VPN service, everyone can check out http://www.VPNing.com to try it free
  
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  - Rand
    Oct 25, 2010 @ 11:00:25
    
    it ain’t impossible!
    
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    - Morgid
      Nov 02, 2010 @ 22:26:17
      
      How to progress now?
      
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thomas
Jul 21, 2010 @ 16:43:10

Just saying that the GFW are surely going to jump on this.

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Rand
Jul 21, 2010 @ 16:44:47

That’ll take time; GFW still in process of killing off it’s second wave of home grown microblogs.

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S. Rein
Jul 21, 2010 @ 19:30:47

Some things are better left quiet. There is not benefit from posting this.

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Tait
Jul 22, 2010 @ 00:57:47

My VPN isn’t slow. I use Witopia.net. (I’m not affiliated with them.)

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k10
Jul 24, 2010 @ 17:04:00

On my Nokia N95 phone I am using SymVPN software from http://www.telexy.com and VPN account from http://www.swissvpn.net
There is no any problems with speed, all is really fast, even VoIP works without problems.

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管道泵
Mar 13, 2012 @ 10:02:08

消防泵

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Anna Howart
Dec 19, 2012 @ 18:41:19

You can use “Hotspot Shield” free vpn to a href = “http://www.accesstwitterfromwork.com/” = “Access Twitter From Work”>access twitter from work as it allows you to hide your IP address assigned by your Internet Service Provider or ISP. Therefore, it protects your data traffic from being spied upon.

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