Fanfou

Fanfou
Type of site
microblogging
Available inSimplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
URLfanfou.com
CommercialYes
Launched12 May 2007 (2007-05-12)
Current statusActive

Fanfou (simplified Chinese: 饭否; traditional Chinese: 飯否; pinyin: Fànfǒu) is a Chinese microblogging (weibo) website. It was the first microblogging site 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.[1]

It was closed on 7 July 2009 due to censorship in the wake of July 2009 Ürümqi riots.[2] It was reopened on 11 November 2010.[3]

References

  1. ^ "惠普成为中国微博客网站饭否首个付费用户-搜狐It".
  2. ^ Ward, Mark (2009-07-06). "China clampdown on tech in Urumqi". BBC. Retrieved 2017-11-25.
  3. ^ 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.