How much global news comes out of either of those? That's the point of the parent comment.

Weido and Wechat may have more users, but they aren't newsmakers. Just like there's more people at a Def Leppard concert than in the White House, but the White House makes news.

They're not news makers? Yes they are.

They are largely irrelevant to the rest of the world as a source of news except to see what the government line is and as a pulse taker of Chinese population tolerance to policy. They are a propoganda news source controlled by the Chinese Government for the Chinese population. Large population for sure, and highly impactful to controlling that population but only viable for the CCP.

Good luck buying wechat as someone without Chinese citizenship.

Good luck buying WeChat without the proper connections to the ruling class in China in the first place.

Facebook is also far far bigger than Twitter. Yet Elon is content with ignoring it, and so was Trump (who is suspended into 2023 [0])

[0] https://www.npr.org/2021/06/04/1003284948/trump-suspended-fr...

Facebook amplifies, it doesn't create. People link to twitter threads from HN all the time, rarely if ever do they link to FB posts.

Nobody cares about Facebook, even though it's hugely used it's a dead letter.

Facebook is a dying site and it isn't for sale. Irrelevant to the options.

Weibo and Wechat are also not available for sale, so what's your point?

Also irrelevant to the conversation.

My rebuttal was to this comment, which implied that size was an overriding factor of importance. That comment was a rebuttal to you. So I'm not sure what you even want to argue about.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31110766

Please learn how comment threads work.