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Fanfou.com was founded by Wang Xing with the team that created Xiaonei on 12 May 2007. The website was developed in LAMP stack with Twitter-compatible APIs. Hewlett-Packard became its first paid customer on June 2, 2009. [1] It was closed on 7 July 2009 due to censorship in the wake of July 2009 Ürümqi riots. [2]
Fanfou is the earliest notable weibo service. It was launched in Beijing on May 12, 2007 by the co-founder of Xiaonei (now Renren) Wang Xing. The website's layout, API, and mode of use was highly similar to Twitter, which was created earlier in 2006. Fanfou's users increased from 0.3 million to 1 million in the first half of 2009.
Weibo (Chinese: 微博; pinyin: Wēibó), or Sina Weibo (Chinese: 新浪微博; pinyin: Xīnlàng Wēibó), is a Chinese microblogging website. Launched by Sina Corporation on 14 August 2009, it is one of the biggest social media platforms in China , [ 1 ] with over 582 million monthly active users (252 million daily active users) as of Q1 2022 ...
Weibo: Sina Corporation: 2009-08 microblogging: Proprietary: own TOS Yes No Viva Engage: Yammer, Inc. 2008-09 [17] microblogging: Proprietary: own TOS Yes Yes X (Twitter) X Corp. [18] 2006-08 microblogging: Proprietary: own TOS Yes No
By 2015, instances of censored posts from popular Weibo accounts included messages that were only mildly critical of the government – for example, the blocking of sarcastic comments in the wake of a widely viewed documentary about urban air pollution in China entitled, Under the Dome (Chinese: 穹顶之下; pinyin: qióng dǐng zhī xià). [183]
On 3 May 2021, Wang posted a Tang Dynasty (618–907 AD) poem about book burning on Fanfou, a social media platform owned by himself. The action was reported by Quartz News as a veiled swipe against the Xi Jinping Administration's clampdown on civil society, intellectual and academic freedom since ascension to office.
Tencent Weibo was a Chinese microblogging website launched by Tencent in April 2010, and was shut down on September 28, 2020. [1] Users could broadcast a message including 140 Chinese characters at most through the web, SMS or smartphone.
FreeWeibo (Chinese: 自由微博) is a website that monitors and makes available content from leading Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo that has been censored and deleted by Chinese authorities under the Great Firewall. [2] The home page is constantly updated to show the latest most-censored Weibo content. [3]