Chinese blocked from accessing Pinterest

China has blocked one of the few Western social media sites that had remained accessible to its population: Pinterest. The site has followed the example of Facebook, Twitter and many others after the photo sharing site was blocked in China, according to data from censorship monitoring organization GreatFire. GreatFire checks a range of the internet’s […]

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Pinterest tops 150 million monthly users

Pinterest on Thursday announced that the number of monthly users soared in the past year to top 150 million, with most of that growth coming from outside the United States. Pinterest grew 50 percent from a year ago, with 80 million of its “active Pinners” not from the US. Co-founder and chief executive Ben Silbermann […]

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