Twitter Users in China Face Detention and Threats in New Beijing Crackdown | NYT

Also probably not good for one's social credit rating

"While it remains off limits for people in China, official media outlets like the Communist Party-controlled People’s Daily newspaper and the Xinhua news agency have used Twitter to shape perceptions of the country in the rest of the world.

“On the one hand, state media takes advantage of the full features of these platforms to reach millions of people,” said Sarah Cook, a senior analyst for East Asia at Freedom House, a pro-democracy research group based in the United States. “On the other hand, ordinary Chinese are risking interrogation and jail for using these same platforms to communicate with each other and the outside world.”"

Twitter Users in China Face Detention and Threats in New Beijing Crackdown | NYT