Social networking tough at Shanghai swim worlds
Michael Phelps recently tweeted his mother from the American team's training camp in Australia. The 14-time Olympic champion may have to resort to more conventional modes of conversation when he arrives this week at the world championships in China, where Twitter and Facebook are blocked by the government. Unless users know how to create their own virtual private network (VPN) or are willing to spend heavily on roaming fees and post from foreign-based smartphones, access to foreign social networking sites in China is difficult.... detail[...]Related: