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China’s Twitter Goes Hollywood

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A cryptic message from Brad Pitt on China’s version of Twitter set off a firestorm this week.

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He was coming, but now, apparently, he isn’t.

Fans take notice when a Hollywood star tweets—especially when it’s Brad Pitt messaging for the first time on the Twitter-like Chinese microblogging service known as Sina Weibo, which has as many as 400 million users.

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