Sina is one of China’s earliest and biggest web portals, and is known for being the maker of social media channel Weibo. It also has an online media business, but it’s now facing fierce competition from Bytedance’s news aggregator Toutiao.

Weibo

Social Network Microblogging

Also Known As

微博

Initial Release Date

2009

Developed By

Sina

Location Region

Beijing, China

Us Equivalent

Twitter

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What is Weibo? China's most popular blogging platform

Weibo is a Twitter-like microblogging service used by hundreds of millions of users. Launched by Sina in 2009, it regularly censors topics deemed sensitive or inappropriate by the Chinese government.

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Weibo has more monthly active users than Twitter (as of 2018).

DID YOU KNOW?

Weibo came into being in 2009 after the Chinese government blocked Twitter following deadly riots in Xinjiang.

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Source: SCMP Data - March 2019