Alibaba’s Jack Ma more popular online than movie star Jet Li

By | September 24, 2014

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You may not be surprised to hear that Alibaba’s (BABA) chairman and founder Jack Ma is China’s richest man. But did you know he’s also one of that country’s top social media bloggers, with 15.8 million followers on Sina Weibo, the dominant microblogging website? Ma, who owns a stake in Sina Weibo, has more people checking out his blog posts than does China’s cinematic superstar and investor Jet Li, who boasts only 13.4 million on the rival Tencent Weibo microblogging platform. But kung fu artist Li is No. 1 on Tencent Weibo. Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo are Chinese versions of Twitter (TWTR) Sina Weibo is run by Chinese online media giant Sina (SINA). Ma’s social media ranking was included in a report by Shanghai-based magazine publisher Hurun Research Institute , which yesterday also anointed Ma as mainland China’s richest man with an estimated worth of $25 billion. The Hurun… Scalper1 News

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