With more than 500 million registered accounts and about 54 million daily users, Sina Weibo has grown into a raucous forum, instantly spreading news and views in brief messages that can flit past censors.
The basic logic of this tailoring is shown in Figure 2; more detailed content is provided in Additional File 2. In brief, messages were first tailored based on patients' intentions to start one or more of the most effective risk reducing strategies (e.g. take aspirin, cholesterol medication, hypertension medication, or stop smoking).
As our colleague Alan Cowell reports, the Duchess of Cambridge, the former Kate Middleton, entered St .Mary's Hospital in London early on Monday to prepare for the birth of her first child and was "in the early stages of labor," the royal family announced in a brief message.
Chapman's mother, Sallie, described the news as "wonderful" in a brief message to the Guardian.
For reasons that remain unclear, the policy was not formalized until May 1 , 2001 in a brief message to police commanders.
In a brief message on Twitter, Erica Elliott, the press secretary for Representative Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California, the majority whip, announced the tentative schedule.
"I am Barbara Bush, and I am a New Yorker for marriage equality," she says in the brief message, sponsored by an advocacy group.
In a brief message to the media, the I.R.A. said the statement would address its six-year cease-fire, its future intentions, and its attitude toward weapons.
"As commander of the International Security Assistance Force, nothing is more important than the safety and protection of the Afghan people," General McChrystal said in the brief message.
In a brief message on its website, it simply extends condolences to the victims of this "senseless tragedy" and "joins the rest of the country in praying for the quick recovery of those injured".
