The web2 company that would have highest likelihood of sustained success launching a public short text social network?

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I think they could do it in the western world. 

They have one of the highest concentrations of elite consumer product thinking.

At one point Weibo was the dominant social network in China. Really really impressive for a twitter clone. Wei-bo is Chinese for micro-blogging