SHANGHAI: Renowned cosmologist Stephen Hawking entered the universe of Chinese social media with a big bang on April 12, with his first post to the country's Twitter-like Weibo service garnering him more than a million followers the same day.
In less than five hours Hawking flew past Apple chief Tim Cook, who has around 820,000 fans after a nearly a year online.
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