Monitoring the Chinese Social Media Ecosystem: RedNote, Weibo & Bilibili Data Pipeline

If you are doing market research, brand monitoring, competitive intelligence, or academic research on China, no single platform tells the whole story. Chinese internet users spread across specialized platforms the way Western users split between Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Reddit — but the Chinese platforms are larger, more fragmented, and harder to access from outside the country. This article maps the three most important Chinese social platforms for data collection, explains what each on