Fanfou () is a Chinese

microblogging Microblogging is a form of social network that permits only short posts. They "allow users to exchange small elements of content such as short sentences, individual images, or video links",. Retrieved June 5, 2014 which may be the major reason for ...

( weibo) website. It was the first

Twitter Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and ...

clone in China.

History

Fanfou.com was founded by

Wang Xing Wang Xing (; born 18 February 1979) is a Chinese billionaire businessman and the CEO of Meituan-Dianping. ''Fortune'' listed Wang as number three on its 2018 "40 under 40" list. ''Forbes'' estimates his net worth at US$8.9 billion as of Novem ...

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. It was closed on 7 July 2009 due to

censorship Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. This may be done on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient". Censorship can be conducted by governments ...

in the wake of

July 2009 Ürümqi riots The July 2009 Ürümqi riots were a series of violent riots over several days that broke out on 5 July 2009 in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), in northwestern China. The first day's rioting, which ...

. It was reopened on 11 November 2010.

References

External links

Fanfou website
{{Microblogging Microblogging services Chinese websites Blog hosting services Internet properties established in 2007 2007 establishments in China