Fanfou

Fanfou
Type of site
 microblogging
Available in Chinese:
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Website fanfou.com
Alexa rank Negative increase 53,307 (February 2014)[1]
Commercial Yes
Launched 12 May 2007 (2007-05-12)
Current status Active

Fanfou (Chinese: 饭否) is a Chinese microblogging (weibo) website. It was the first Twitter clone in China.

History

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.[2]

It was closed on 7 July 2009 due to censorship in the wake of July 2009 Ürümqi riots.[3] It was reopened on 11 November 2010.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Fanfou.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
  2. ↑ http://it.sohu.com/20090602/n264287711.shtml
  3. ↑ Ward, Mark (2009-07-06). "China clampdown on tech in Urumqi". BBC. Retrieved 2017-11-25.
  4. ↑ 崔西 (2010-11-11). "王兴确认饭否域名逐步解封 暂无互动功能" [Wang Xing confirms fanfou.com is unblocking, in read-only mode]. Sina Technology (in Chinese). Beijing. Retrieved 2017-11-25.
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