US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan briefly put Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, on Tuesday night as millions in the country discussed and discussed her Asia journey.
The microblogging platform apologized for a half-hour outage of its mobile app in the period just before Pelosi’s landing, at 10:40 p.m. Tuesday, when numerous posts tracking her plane flooded social media.
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