NEW YORK (AP) — A Twitter executive says the site is working on a way to allow Chinese users to sign up in their own language, though the Web site remains blocked there.
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey said at a panel Monday that his company is "hard at work" on allowing users to register in Mandarin. Dorsey was responding to a question from Chinese avant garde artist Ai Weiwei (EYE' WAY'-way).
The artist has been an outspoken critic of Chinese authorities and their censorship.
Dorsey, Ai and Richard MacManus, founder of technology blog ReadWriteWeb, were part of a discussion on digital activism at the Paley Center for Media.
The conversation came days after it was reported that Google is likely to close its search engine in China after negotiations over censorship stalled.
