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1. www.thatsmags.com › shanghai › postThis Day in History: Weibo Launched in China – That’s Shanghai

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   Aug 14, 2022 · Sina Corporation launched Chinese microblogging website Sina Weibo (more commonly referred to as Weibo) on August 14, 2009. Weibo has grown into one of the biggest social media platforms in the country over the past decade, with 241 million daily active users (DAU), as of May 2020.

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3. www.techinasia.com › 7-years-of-weibo-china-social7 years of Weibo - Tech in Asia

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   Aug 14, 2016 · Weibo launched August 14, 2009 – exactly seven years ago today. It cloned Twitter – which had been blocked in China just a month earlier – with surgical precision but added a few things of its...

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4. www.bbc.co.uk › news › magazine-18773111Weibo brings change to China - BBC News

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   Jul 16, 2012 · Pictures of the caged animals, posted on Weibo, soon attracted the attention of hundreds of thousands of people across China, and at least 100 animal lovers quickly answered an appeal to jump...

5. www.thatsmags.com › suzhou › postThis Day in History: Weibo Launched in China – That’s Suzhou

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   Aug 14, 2022 · Sina Corporation launched Chinese microblogging website Sina Weibo (more commonly referred to as Weibo) on August 14, 2009. Weibo has grown into one of the biggest social media platforms in the country over the past decade, with 241 million daily active users (DAU), as of May 2020.

6. lithub.com › twitter-and-facebook-all-in-one-onTwitter and Facebook All in One: On the Rise of China’s Weibo

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   In particular he like to poke fun at the second-generation rich kids who used Weibo to show off their luxury lifestyle. When a 20-year-old called Guo Meimei posted photos of her Maserati sports car and Hermès handbags, netizens spotted that she claimed to work for Red Cross in China (in fact her sugar daddy did).

7. www.voanews.com › a › news-site-helps-decode-chinaNews Site Helps Decode China Through Memes and Social Media ...

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   Oct 14, 2023 · The rise of censorship in China has left its mark on What’s on Weibo, which has been blocked in China since 2018. Still, What’s on Weibo averages around 250,000 visitors per month — many of ...

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   What is Weibo & how does it work?

   • Weibo was launched in August 2009 as the micro-blogging service of Sina.com, one of China’s leading technology companies. It has since played an essential part in the public life of the Chinese people, reflecting China’s socio-political transition in the post-Olympics decade.

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   Why is Weibo so popular in China?

   • Weibo tests highly customizable pages for brands. These become popular in China in the years to follow, giving companies large and small a way to engage directly with consumers. With an eye to all the money to be made from gaming, Weibo launches its own virtual currency.

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   Is Weibo a blurring boundary between corporate and public interests?

   • This transformation is taking place at the tightening state control of digital media, suggesting a blurring boundary between corporate and public interests under such circumstance. Weibo was launched in August 2009 as the micro-blogging service of Sina.com, one of China’s leading technology companies.

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   What does Weibo mean?

   • The “weibo” name is a generic word for “microblogging.” “Weibo was one module of Sina’s social networking project ‘Pengyou’, which was cancelled and never went live,” says Gong Min, a marketing manager at Weibo, to Tech in Asia. The word pengyou means “friend” in Chinese.

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   Is Weibo China's supercharged answer to Twitter?

   • Photo credit: SteveC. Every single minute of every day, just over 64,000 posts and reposts flood the stream of Weibo, the social network oft-misunderstood and mispronounced outside of China. It’s basically China’s supercharged answer to Twitter. Weibo launched August 14, 2009 – exactly seven years ago today.

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   What is Sina Weibo?

   • Chinese web giant Sina, best known for its Yahoo-esque web portal, takes a stab at Twitter and numerous Chinese microblogging services that have popped up in the past few months by launching what’s initially called Sina Weibo. The “weibo” name is a generic word for “microblogging.”

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9. journals.sagepub.com › doi › fullWeibo and the making of Chinese networked publics: Witness ...

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   Feb 7, 2018 · Weibo was launched in August 2009 as the micro-blogging service of Sina.com, one of China’s leading technology companies. It has since played an essential part in the public life of the Chinese people, reflecting China’s socio-political transition in the post-Olympics decade.