Fanfou
Fanfou (Chinese: 饭否) is a Chinese microblogging (weibo) website. It was the first Twitter clone in China.
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Type of site | microblogging |
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| Available in | Chinese: Simplified Chinese Traditional Chinese |
| URL | fanfou |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Launched | 12 May 2007 |
| Current status | Active |
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
- http://it.sohu.com/20090602/n264287711.shtml
- Ward, Mark (2009-07-06). "China clampdown on tech in Urumqi". BBC. Retrieved 2017-11-25.
- 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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