Formula 1

F1 people dodging Twitter ban in China

F1's new obsession with Twitter might have to take a backseat role in China this weekend. Particularly over the pre-season period, many F1 figures - including drivers, bosses, team PR departments, media members and insiders - tapped into the power ...

GMM

Edited: Apr 15, 2010, 2:32 AM

Copy link

Share on Viber

Add as a preferred source

F1's new obsession with Twitter might have to take a backseat role in China this weekend.

Particularly over the pre-season period, many F1 figures - including drivers, bosses, team PR departments, media members and insiders - tapped into the power and popularity of the growing microblogging phenomenon.

But the Chinese government has banned and blocked many forms of social media on the internet, extending to Twitter in late 2009.

However, it seems there are ways to dodge China's Twitter ban. Having expressing dismay at the ban, HRT driver Karun Chandhok was greeted at Shanghai airport this week by three "very sweet fans" who told him the tricks.

Also on Wednesday, McLaren, Mike Gascoyne, Mark Webber, Heikki Kovalainen and several journalists have been Tweeting from Shanghai.

It is not clear if or how China's estimated 30,000 internet police will react to the violations of the internet censorship laws.

The operator of Virgin's official Twitter account said: "We'll probably just go low-key for China (in 2010) and then look at a proper solution for next year."

We want your opinion!

What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?

Take our 5 minute survey.

- The Motorsport.com Team

Read and post comments

Share Or Save This Story

Copy link

Share on Viber

Previous article McLaren initiated Mercedes split - Dennis

Next article Senna to race fresh Cosworth engine in China

Top Comments

There are no comments at the moment. Would you like to write one?

View More & Comment

Latest news

Why Oscar Piastri has struggled to show his best with this year's McLaren MCL40

Formula 1

Why Oscar Piastri has struggled to show his best with this year's McLaren MCL40

FIA ratifies key 2027 WRC sporting regulations

WRC

WRC WRC 1 h

FIA ratifies key 2027 WRC sporting regulations

Toprak Razgatlioglu to miss the rest MotoGP season due to shoulder injury

MotoGP

MGP MotoGP

Australian GP

2 h

Toprak Razgatlioglu to miss the rest MotoGP season due to shoulder injury

MotoGP teams told Qatar Grand Prix expected to go ahead

MotoGP

MGP MotoGP

Qatar GP

2 h

MotoGP teams told Qatar Grand Prix expected to go ahead

Feature

Discover prime content

Why Oscar Piastri has struggled to show his best with this year's McLaren MCL40

Formula 1

By Jake Boxall-Legge

Why Oscar Piastri has struggled to show his best with this year's McLaren MCL40

How levelling the playing field isn’t antithetical to the principles of F1

Formula 1

By Pat Symonds

How levelling the playing field isn’t antithetical to the principles of F1

Lights, Camara, action: How Haas picked F1's latest rookie for 2027

Formula 1

Singapore GP

By Jake Boxall-Legge

Lights, Camara, action: How Haas picked F1's latest rookie for 2027

Employing team orders can simply be a matter of common sense

Formula 1

By Kevin Turner

Employing team orders can simply be a matter of common sense

Subscribe and access Motorsport.com with your ad-blocker.

From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.

You have 2 options:

Become a subscriber.
Disable your adblocker.

Subscribe now Already subscribed? Sign in here

Already disabled your adblocker?
Reload page

Manage Alerts