Radiohead Launch Chinese 'Weibo' Web Blog

Radiohead have launched their own blog in China, it has been reported.

The band recently set-up a page on the "weibo" site of Chinese Internet portal Sina.com, reports Yahoo. 'Weibo' translates as 'microblog',and is the Chinese-equivalent of Twitter.

Radiohead have posted a single message on the page: "testing the weibo."

Radiohead have in the past have been highly outspoken on their criticism of the Chinese government. They performed at Free Tibet concerts last year and backed a campaign for the release of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.

Meanwhile, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke played a secret DJ set after the band's surprise appearance at this year's Glastonbury Festival.

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