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class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Users</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Users-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Features" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Features"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Features</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Features-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Features subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Features-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Verification" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Verification"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>Verification</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Verification-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Clients" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Clients"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>Clients</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Clients-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-International_versions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#International_versions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3</span> <span>International versions</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-International_versions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Weibo_Stories" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Weibo_Stories"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.4</span> <span>Weibo Stories</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Weibo_Stories-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Weibo_VLOG" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Weibo_VLOG"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.5</span> <span>Weibo VLOG</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Weibo_VLOG-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Weibo_interviews" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Weibo_interviews"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.6</span> <span>Weibo interviews</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Weibo_interviews-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Posting_via_text_message" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Posting_via_text_message"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.7</span> <span>Posting via text message</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Posting_via_text_message-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-IP_address" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#IP_address"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.8</span> <span>IP address</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-IP_address-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Super-hashtags" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Super-hashtags"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.9</span> <span>Super-hashtags</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Super-hashtags-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Paid_promotion" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Paid_promotion"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.10</span> <span>Paid promotion</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Paid_promotion-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other_services" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other_services"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.11</span> <span>Other services</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Other_services-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Controversies" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Controversies"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Controversies</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Controversies-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Controversies subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Controversies-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Racism" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Racism"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.1</span> <span>Racism</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Racism-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Censorship" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Censorship"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.2</span> <span>Censorship</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Censorship-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Fake_social_media_engagement" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Fake_social_media_engagement"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3</span> <span>Fake social media engagement</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Fake_social_media_engagement-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Promotions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Promotions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Promotions</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Promotions-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only 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class="vector-toc-numb">7.3</span> <span>Villarreal CF</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Villarreal_CF-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-CCTV_2018_New_Year's_Gala" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#CCTV_2018_New_Year's_Gala"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.4</span> <span>CCTV 2018 New Year's Gala</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-CCTV_2018_New_Year's_Gala-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Statistics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Statistics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Statistics</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Statistics-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Statistics subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Statistics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Sina_Weibo's_official_accounts" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sina_Weibo's_official_accounts"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.1</span> <span>Sina Weibo's official accounts</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sina_Weibo's_official_accounts-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Most_popular_accounts_(individuals)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Most_popular_accounts_(individuals)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.2</span> <span>Most popular accounts (individuals)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Most_popular_accounts_(individuals)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Record-setting_posts" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Record-setting_posts"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.3</span> <span>Record-setting posts</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Record-setting_posts-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul 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href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_Weibo" title="Sina Weibo – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Sina Weibo" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%93%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%8B" title="সিনা ওয়েইবো – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="সিনা ওয়েইবো" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin-l%C5%8Dng_B%C3%AE-phok" title="Sin-lōng Bî-phok – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Sin-lōng Bî-phok" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_Weibo" title="Sina Weibo – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Sina Weibo" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_Weibo" title="Sina Weibo – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Sina Weibo" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_Weibo" title="Sina Weibo – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Sina Weibo" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_Weibo" title="Sina Weibo – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Sina Weibo" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%A8%D9%88" title="سینا ویبو – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="سینا ویبو" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weibo" title="Weibo – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Weibo" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%AEn-long_M%C3%AC-pok" title="Sîn-long Mì-pok – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Sîn-long Mì-pok" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8B%9C%EB%82%98_%EC%9B%A8%EC%9D%B4%EB%B3%B4" title="시나 웨이보 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="시나 웨이보" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_Weibo" title="Sina Weibo – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Sina Weibo" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_Weibo" title="Sina Weibo – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Sina Weibo" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weibo" title="Weibo – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="Weibo" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_Weibo" title="Sina Weibo – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Sina Weibo" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_Weibo" title="Sina Weibo – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Sina Weibo" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_Weibo" title="Sina Weibo – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Sina Weibo" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_Weibo" title="Sina Weibo – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Sina Weibo" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C4%ADng-l%C3%A2ung_M%C3%AC-b%C3%A1uk" title="Sĭng-lâung Mì-báuk – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="Sĭng-lâung Mì-báuk" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_Weibo" title="Sina Weibo – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Sina Weibo" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%B0%E6%B5%AA%E5%BE%AE%E5%8D%9A" title="新浪微博 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="新浪微博" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_Weibo" title="Sina Weibo – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Sina Weibo" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B8%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%BE_%E0%A8%B5%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%AC%E0%A9%8B" title="ਸੀਨਾ ਵੀਬੋ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਸੀਨਾ ਵੀਬੋ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_Weibo" title="Sina Weibo – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Sina Weibo" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_Weibo" title="Sina Weibo – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Sina Weibo" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_Weibo" title="Sina Weibo – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Sina Weibo" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_Weibo" title="Sina Weibo – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Sina Weibo" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" 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line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Type of site</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Microblogging" title="Microblogging">Microblogging</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Available in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Simplified_Chinese" class="mw-redirect" title="Simplified Chinese">Simplified Chinese</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Traditional_Chinese" class="mw-redirect" title="Traditional Chinese">Traditional Chinese</a><br />English (partial)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Weibo_Corporation" title="Weibo Corporation">Weibo Corporation</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">URL</th><td class="infobox-data url"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://weibo.com">weibo<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Commercial</th><td class="infobox-data">Yes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Registration</th><td class="infobox-data">Optional</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Launched</th><td class="infobox-data">14 August 2009<span class="noprint">; 15 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2009-08-14</span>)</span><sup id="cite_ref-chinadaily0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chinadaily0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Current status</th><td class="infobox-data category">Active</td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="color: #202122;background-color:#b0c4de">Weibo</th></tr><tr style="display:none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Chinese_language" title="Chinese language">Chinese</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh-Hani" style="font-size: 1rem;">新浪微博</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;">Literal meaning</th><td class="infobox-data">Sina Microblog</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox-subbox mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="display:inline-table; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: left;color: #202122; background-color: #f9ffbc;">Transcriptions</th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Standard_Chinese" title="Standard Chinese">Standard Mandarin</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Hanyu_Pinyin" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanyu Pinyin">Hanyu Pinyin</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn">Xīnlàng Wēibó</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Bopomofo" title="Bopomofo">Bopomofo</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh-Bopo" style="font-style: normal;">ㄒㄧㄣㄌㄤˋ ㄨㄟㄅㄛˊ</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Spelling_in_Gwoyeu_Romatzyh" title="Spelling in Gwoyeu Romatzyh">Gwoyeu Romatzyh</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn">Shinlanq Ueibor</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Wade%E2%80%93Giles" title="Wade–Giles">Wade–Giles</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn"><span>Hsin<sup>1</sup>-lang<sup>4</sup> Wei<sup>1</sup>-po<sup>2</sup></span></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Tongyong_Pinyin" title="Tongyong Pinyin">Tongyong Pinyin</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn">Sin-làng Wei-bó</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Mandarin" title="Help:IPA/Mandarin">IPA</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="IPA" lang="cmn-Latn-fonipa" style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Mandarin" title="Help:IPA/Mandarin">[ɕín.lâŋ wéɪ.pwǒ]</a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Cantonese" title="Cantonese">Yue: Cantonese</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Yale_romanization_of_Cantonese" title="Yale romanization of Cantonese">Yale Romanization</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Yue Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="yue-Latn">Sānlohng Mèihbok</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Jyutping" title="Jyutping">Jyutping</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Yue Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="yue-Latn">san1 long6 mei4 bok3</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Cantonese" title="Help:IPA/Cantonese">IPA</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="IPA" lang="yue-Latn-fonipa" style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Cantonese" title="Help:IPA/Cantonese">[sɐn˥ lɔŋ˨ mej˩ pɔk̚˧]</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Weibo</b> (<a href="/wiki/Chinese_language" title="Chinese language">Chinese</a>: <span lang="zh">微博</span>; <a href="/wiki/Pinyin" title="Pinyin">pinyin</a>: <i><span lang="zh-Latn">Wēibó</span></i>), or <b>Sina Weibo</b> (<a href="/wiki/Chinese_language" title="Chinese language">Chinese</a>: <span lang="zh">新浪微博</span>; <a href="/wiki/Pinyin" title="Pinyin">pinyin</a>: <i><span lang="zh-Latn">Xīnlàng Wēibó</span></i>), is a Chinese <a href="/wiki/Microblogging" title="Microblogging">microblogging</a> (<a href="/wiki/Microblogging_in_China" title="Microblogging in China">weibo</a>) website. Launched by <a href="/wiki/Sina_Corp" class="mw-redirect" title="Sina Corp">Sina Corporation</a> on 14 August 2009, it is one of the biggest <a href="/wiki/Social_media_platform" class="mw-redirect" title="Social media platform">social media platforms</a> in <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-chinadaily0_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chinadaily0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with over 582 million <a href="/wiki/Monthly_active_users" class="mw-redirect" title="Monthly active users">monthly active users</a> (252 million daily active users) as of Q1 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The platform has been highly successful but has faced criticism for heavy censorship.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sina had gone public on the <a href="/wiki/NASDAQ" class="mw-redirect" title="NASDAQ">Nasdaq</a> in 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In March 2014, Sina announced a spinoff of Weibo and filed an <a href="/wiki/IPO" class="mw-redirect" title="IPO">IPO</a> under the symbol WB.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sina carved out 11% of Weibo in the IPO, with <a href="/wiki/Alibaba_Group" title="Alibaba Group">Alibaba</a> owning 32% post-IPO.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The company began trading publicly on 17 April 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In March 2017, Sina launched Sina Weibo International Version. In November 2018, Sina Weibo suspended its registration function for minors under the age of 14. In July 2019, Sina Weibo announced that it would launch a two-month campaign to clean up pornographic and vulgar information, named "Project Deep Blue" (蔚蓝计划).<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 29 September 2020, the company announced it would go private again due to rising tensions between the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">US</a> and China. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Name">Name</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Name"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>"Weibo" (微博) is the Chinese word for "microblog". Sina Weibo launched its new <a href="/wiki/Domain_name" title="Domain name">domain name</a> weibo.com on 7 April 2011, deactivating and redirecting from the old domain, t.sina.com.cn, to the new one. Due to its popularity, the media sometimes refers to the platform simply as "Weibo", despite the numerous other Chinese <a href="/wiki/Microblogging_in_China" title="Microblogging in China">microblogging/weibo services</a> including <a href="/wiki/Tencent_Weibo" title="Tencent Weibo">Tencent Weibo</a> (腾讯微博), <a href="/wiki/Sohu_Weibo" class="mw-redirect" title="Sohu Weibo">Sohu Weibo</a> (搜狐微博), and <a href="/wiki/NetEase_Weibo" class="mw-redirect" title="NetEase Weibo">NetEase Weibo</a> (网易微博).<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the latter three have stopped providing services.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sina Weibo is a platform based on fostering user relationships to share, disseminate, and receive information. Through the website or the mobile app, users can upload pictures and videos publicly for instant sharing, with other users being able to comment with text, pictures and videos, or use a multimedia instant messaging service. The company initially invited a large number of celebrities to join the platform at the beginning<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and has since invited many media personalities, government departments, businesses and <a href="/wiki/Non-governmental_organization" title="Non-governmental organization">non-governmental organizations</a> to open accounts for the purpose of publishing and communicating information.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To avoid the impersonation of celebrities, Sina Weibo uses verification symbols; celebrity accounts have an orange letter "V" and organizations' accounts have a blue letter "V". Sina Weibo has more than 500 million registered users;<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> out of these, 313 million are monthly active users, 85% use the Weibo mobile app, 70% are college-aged, 50.10% are male and 49.90% are female. There are over 100 million messages posted by users each day. With more than 100 million followers, actress <a href="/wiki/Xie_Na" title="Xie Na">Xie Na</a> holds the record for the most followers on the platform. Despite fierce competition among Chinese social media platforms, Sina Weibo remains the most popular.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/%E5%BE%AE%E5%8D%9A%E4%B9%8B%E5%A4%9C%E4%BC%97%E6%98%9F%E4%BA%91%E9%9B%86_%E6%9E%97%E5%BF%97%E7%8E%B2%E5%91%A8%E5%86%AC%E9%9B%A8%E7%AD%89%E2%80%9C%E4%BA%89%E5%A5%87%E6%96%97%E8%89%B3%E2%80%9D.webm/220px--%E5%BE%AE%E5%8D%9A%E4%B9%8B%E5%A4%9C%E4%BC%97%E6%98%9F%E4%BA%91%E9%9B%86_%E6%9E%97%E5%BF%97%E7%8E%B2%E5%91%A8%E5%86%AC%E9%9B%A8%E7%AD%89%E2%80%9C%E4%BA%89%E5%A5%87%E6%96%97%E8%89%B3%E2%80%9D.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="124" data-durationhint="116" data-mwtitle="微博之夜众星云集_林志玲周冬雨等“争奇斗艳”.webm" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:%E5%BE%AE%E5%8D%9A%E4%B9%8B%E5%A4%9C%E4%BC%97%E6%98%9F%E4%BA%91%E9%9B%86_%E6%9E%97%E5%BF%97%E7%8E%B2%E5%91%A8%E5%86%AC%E9%9B%A8%E7%AD%89%E2%80%9C%E4%BA%89%E5%A5%87%E6%96%97%E8%89%B3%E2%80%9D.webm"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/56/%E5%BE%AE%E5%8D%9A%E4%B9%8B%E5%A4%9C%E4%BC%97%E6%98%9F%E4%BA%91%E9%9B%86_%E6%9E%97%E5%BF%97%E7%8E%B2%E5%91%A8%E5%86%AC%E9%9B%A8%E7%AD%89%E2%80%9C%E4%BA%89%E5%A5%87%E6%96%97%E8%89%B3%E2%80%9D.webm/%E5%BE%AE%E5%8D%9A%E4%B9%8B%E5%A4%9C%E4%BC%97%E6%98%9F%E4%BA%91%E9%9B%86_%E6%9E%97%E5%BF%97%E7%8E%B2%E5%91%A8%E5%86%AC%E9%9B%A8%E7%AD%89%E2%80%9C%E4%BA%89%E5%A5%87%E6%96%97%E8%89%B3%E2%80%9D.webm.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="854" data-height="480" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/%E5%BE%AE%E5%8D%9A%E4%B9%8B%E5%A4%9C%E4%BC%97%E6%98%9F%E4%BA%91%E9%9B%86_%E6%9E%97%E5%BF%97%E7%8E%B2%E5%91%A8%E5%86%AC%E9%9B%A8%E7%AD%89%E2%80%9C%E4%BA%89%E5%A5%87%E6%96%97%E8%89%B3%E2%80%9D.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-width="854" data-height="480" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/56/%E5%BE%AE%E5%8D%9A%E4%B9%8B%E5%A4%9C%E4%BC%97%E6%98%9F%E4%BA%91%E9%9B%86_%E6%9E%97%E5%BF%97%E7%8E%B2%E5%91%A8%E5%86%AC%E9%9B%A8%E7%AD%89%E2%80%9C%E4%BA%89%E5%A5%87%E6%96%97%E8%89%B3%E2%80%9D.webm/%E5%BE%AE%E5%8D%9A%E4%B9%8B%E5%A4%9C%E4%BC%97%E6%98%9F%E4%BA%91%E9%9B%86_%E6%9E%97%E5%BF%97%E7%8E%B2%E5%91%A8%E5%86%AC%E9%9B%A8%E7%AD%89%E2%80%9C%E4%BA%89%E5%A5%87%E6%96%97%E8%89%B3%E2%80%9D.webm.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/56/%E5%BE%AE%E5%8D%9A%E4%B9%8B%E5%A4%9C%E4%BC%97%E6%98%9F%E4%BA%91%E9%9B%86_%E6%9E%97%E5%BF%97%E7%8E%B2%E5%91%A8%E5%86%AC%E9%9B%A8%E7%AD%89%E2%80%9C%E4%BA%89%E5%A5%87%E6%96%97%E8%89%B3%E2%80%9D.webm/%E5%BE%AE%E5%8D%9A%E4%B9%8B%E5%A4%9C%E4%BC%97%E6%98%9F%E4%BA%91%E9%9B%86_%E6%9E%97%E5%BF%97%E7%8E%B2%E5%91%A8%E5%86%AC%E9%9B%A8%E7%AD%89%E2%80%9C%E4%BA%89%E5%A5%87%E6%96%97%E8%89%B3%E2%80%9D.webm.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/56/%E5%BE%AE%E5%8D%9A%E4%B9%8B%E5%A4%9C%E4%BC%97%E6%98%9F%E4%BA%91%E9%9B%86_%E6%9E%97%E5%BF%97%E7%8E%B2%E5%91%A8%E5%86%AC%E9%9B%A8%E7%AD%89%E2%80%9C%E4%BA%89%E5%A5%87%E6%96%97%E8%89%B3%E2%80%9D.webm/%E5%BE%AE%E5%8D%9A%E4%B9%8B%E5%A4%9C%E4%BC%97%E6%98%9F%E4%BA%91%E9%9B%86_%E6%9E%97%E5%BF%97%E7%8E%B2%E5%91%A8%E5%86%AC%E9%9B%A8%E7%AD%89%E2%80%9C%E4%BA%89%E5%A5%87%E6%96%97%E8%89%B3%E2%80%9D.webm.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /></video></span><figcaption>Sina Weibo gala in 2019. Participants include: <a href="/wiki/Sun_Yi_(actress)" title="Sun Yi (actress)">Sun Yi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chen_Duling" title="Chen Duling">Chen Duling</a>, <a href="/wiki/JJ_Lin" title="JJ Lin">Lin Junjie</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Di_Lieba&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Di Lieba (page does not exist)">Di Lieba</a>, <a href="/wiki/Li_Yifeng" title="Li Yifeng">Li Yifeng</a>, <a href="/wiki/Huang_Xiaoming" title="Huang Xiaoming">Huang Xiaoming</a>, <a href="/wiki/G%C3%BClnezer_Bextiyar" title="Gülnezer Bextiyar">Guli Nazha</a>, <a href="/wiki/Zhou_Dongyu" title="Zhou Dongyu">Zhou Dongyu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hua_Chenyu" title="Hua Chenyu">Hua Chenyu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shawn_Yue" title="Shawn Yue">Shawn Yue</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jackson_Wang" title="Jackson Wang">Wang Jiaer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Zhu_Yilong" title="Zhu Yilong">Zhu Yilong</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lin_Chi-ling" title="Lin Chi-ling">Lin Chiling</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charmaine_Sheh" title="Charmaine Sheh">Charmaine Sheh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Liu_Ye_(actor)" title="Liu Ye (actor)">Liu Ye</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nine_Percent" title="Nine Percent">NINE PERCENT</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wu_Dajing" title="Wu Dajing">Wu Dajing</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>After the <a href="/wiki/July_2009_%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi_riots" title="July 2009 Ürümqi riots">July 2009 Ürümqi riots</a>, China shut down most domestic microblogging services, including <a href="/wiki/Fanfou" title="Fanfou">Fanfou</a>, the very first weibo service. Many popular non-China-based microblogging services like <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Plurk" title="Plurk">Plurk</a> have since been <a href="/wiki/Great_Firewall_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Firewall of China">blocked</a>. Sina Corporation CEO <a href="/wiki/Charles_Chao" title="Charles Chao">Charles Chao</a> considered this to be an opportunity,<sup id="cite_ref-time0_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-time0-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-forbes0_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-forbes0-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and on 14 August 2009, Sina launched the tested version of Sina Weibo.<sup id="cite_ref-Ma2015_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ma2015-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Basic functions including message, private message, comment and reposting were made available that September. A Sina Weibo–compatible <a href="/wiki/API" title="API">API</a> platform for developing third-party applications was launched on 28 July 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-chinadaily0_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chinadaily0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 1 December 2010, the website experienced an outage, which administrators later said was due to the ever-increasing numbers of users and posts.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Registered users surpassed 100 million in February 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since 23 March 2011, t.cn has been used as Sina Weibo's official <a href="/wiki/URL_shortening" title="URL shortening">shortened URL</a> in lieu of sinaurl.cn. On 7 April 2011, weibo.com replaced t.sina.com.cn as the new main domain name used by the website. The official logo was also updated.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In June 2011, Sina announced an <a href="/wiki/English-language_spelling_reform" title="English-language spelling reform">English</a>-language version of Sina Weibo would be developed and launched, though content would still be governed by Chinese law.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 11 January 2013, Sina Weibo and Alibaba China (a subsidiary of <a href="/wiki/Alibaba_Group" title="Alibaba Group">Alibaba Group</a>) signed a strategic cooperation agreement.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With more and more foreign celebrities using Sina Weibo, language translation has become an urgent need for Chinese users who wish to communicate with their idols online, especially <a href="/wiki/Korean_language" title="Korean language">Korean</a>. In January 2013, Sina Weibo and NetEase.com announced that they had reached a strategic cooperation agreement. When users browse foreign language content, they can now directly obtain translation results through the <a href="/wiki/Youdao" title="Youdao">YouDao</a> Dictionary.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Sina Weibo financial report in February 2013 showed that its total revenue was approximately US$66 million and that the number of registered users had exceeded the 500 million mark. </p><p>In April 2013, Sina officially announced that Sina Weibo had signed a strategic cooperation agreement with <a href="/wiki/Alibaba_Group" title="Alibaba Group">Alibaba</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The two sides conducted in-depth cooperation in areas such as user account interoperability, data exchange, online payment, and internet marketing. At the same time, Sina announced that Alibaba, through its wholly owned subsidiary, had purchased the preferred shares and common shares issued by Sina Weibo Company for US$586 million, which accounted for approximately 18% of Weibo's fully diluted and diluted total shares.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ownership">Ownership</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Ownership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 9 April 2013, <a href="/wiki/Alibaba_Group" title="Alibaba Group">Alibaba Group</a> announced that it would acquire 18% of Sina Weibo for US$586 million, with the option to buy up to 30% in the future.<sup id="cite_ref-MW_2013_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MW_2013-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alibaba exercised this option when Weibo was listed on <a href="/wiki/NASDAQ" class="mw-redirect" title="NASDAQ">NASDAQ</a> in April 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Users">Users</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Users"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to <a href="/wiki/IResearch_Consulting_Group" title="IResearch Consulting Group">iResearch</a>'s report on 30 March 2011, Sina Weibo had 56.5% of China's microblogging market based on active users and 86.6% based on browsing time over competitors such as <a href="/wiki/Tencent_Weibo" title="Tencent Weibo">Tencent Weibo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Baidu" title="Baidu">Baidu</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The top 100 users had over 485 million followers combined. More than 5,000 companies and 2,700 media organizations in China use Sina Weibo. The site is maintained by a growing microblogging department of 200 employees responsible for technology, design, operations, and marketing.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sina executives invited and persuaded many Chinese celebrities to join the platform. Users now include Asian celebrities, movie stars, singers, famous business and media figures, athletes, scholars, artists, organizations, religious figures, government departments, and officials from <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mainland_China" title="Mainland China">Mainland China</a>, <a href="/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore">Singapore</a>, <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Macau" title="Macau">Macau</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-time0_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-time0-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-forbes0_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-forbes0-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-think0_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-think0-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as some famous foreign individuals and organizations, including <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Rudd" title="Kevin Rudd">Kevin Rudd</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Boris_Johnson" title="Boris Johnson">Boris Johnson</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/David_Cameron" title="David Cameron">David Cameron</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Narendra_Modi" title="Narendra Modi">Narendra Modi</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Toshiba" title="Toshiba">Toshiba</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Germany_national_football_team" title="Germany national football team">Germany national football team</a>. Sina Weibo has a verification program for known people and organizations. Once an account is verified, a verification badge is added beside the account name. </p><p>According to research by Sina Corporation, the number of active users reached over 400 million by Q1 2018, making Sina Weibo the 7th platform with at least 400 million active users, and daily usage increased by 21%.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 2020, Weibo was among 58 other Chinese apps that were banned by the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_India" title="Government of India">Government of India</a>. Following this, <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_India" title="Prime Minister of India">Prime Minister of India</a> <a href="/wiki/Narendra_Modi" title="Narendra Modi">Narendra Modi</a>'s account was deactivated.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Features">Features</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Features"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many of Sina Weibo's features resemble those of <a href="/wiki/Twitter#Features" title="Twitter">Twitter</a>. A user may post with a 140-<a href="/wiki/Character_(symbol)" title="Character (symbol)">character</a> limit (increased to 2,000 as of January 2016 with the exception of reposts and comments),<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> mention or talk to other people using "@UserName" formatting, add <a href="/wiki/Hashtag" title="Hashtag">hashtags</a>, follow other users to make their posts appear in one's own timeline, re-post with "//@UserName" similar to Twitter's retweet function "RT @UserName", select posts for one's favorites list, and verify the account if the user is a celebrity, brand, business or otherwise of public interest.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator" class="mw-redirect" title="Uniform Resource Locator">URLs</a> are automatically shortened using the domain name t.cn, akin to Twitter's t.co. Official and third-party applications can access Sina Weibo from other websites or platforms. </p><p>Users may: </p> <ul><li>Submit up to 18 images/video files in every post</li> <li>Send personal messages to followers</li> <li>Follow others and be followed</li> <li>Post "stories" just like on Instagram</li> <li>React to posts using different emojis</li> <li>Receive monetary rewards that can be used in a digital store linked to Weibo</li> <li>View posts identified as hot or popular</li> <li>Display the location you post from</li></ul> <p>Hashtags differ slightly between Sina Weibo and Twitter, using the double-hashtag "#HashName#" format (the lack of spacing between <a href="/wiki/Chinese_characters" title="Chinese characters">Chinese characters</a> necessitates a closing tag). Users can own a hashtag by requesting hashtag monitoring; the company reviews these requests and responds within one to three days. Once a user owns a hashtag, they have access to a wide variety of functions available only to them on the condition that they remain active (less than 1 post per calendar week revokes these privileges).<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Additionally, comments appear as a list below each post. A commenter can also choose to re-post the comment, quoting the whole original post, to their own page. </p><p>Unregistered users can only browse a few posts by verified accounts. Neither unverified account pages nor comments to posts by verified accounts are accessible to unregistered users. </p><p>Although often described as a Chinese version of Twitter, Sina Weibo combines elements of Twitter, Facebook, and Medium, along with other social media platforms. Sina Weibo users interact more than Twitter users do, and while many topics that go viral on Weibo also originate from the platform itself, Twitter topics often come from outside news or events.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the outbreak of the COVID-19, Weibo was also a data collecting station to collect and detect the spread of the coronavirus.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b><big>Trending topics</big></b> </p><p>Sina Weibo's "trending topics" is a list of current popular topics based partly on tracking user participation and partly on the preference of Weibo staff. Once a topic is trending, it often becomes a heated issue and can have wide-ranging social influence. As such, the list has reshaped how Chinese people relate to the news media.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Verification">Verification</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Verification"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sina Weibo has a verification policy, much like Twitter's account verification, for confirming the identity of a user (celebrities, organizations etc.). Once a user is verified, a colorful V is appended to their username; individuals receive an orange V, while organizations and companies receive a blue V.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A graph and declaration certifying the verification appear on verified user pages. There are several kinds of verifications: personal, college, organization, verification for official accounts (government departments, social media platforms and famous companies), and <a href="/wiki/Microblogging_in_China" title="Microblogging in China">Weibo</a> Master (linked with phone numbers and followers). </p><p>To protect the rights and interests of celebrities, Sina Weibo has launched a celebrity authentication system. The celebrity authentication logo is a gold "V" logo after the verified user's name. The certified figures are mainly stars of various industries, business executives and important news parties. From 22:00 on June 12, 2020, users who post comments must follow the blogger for more than 7 days, except for those who have set "people I follow" to comment on themselves. This adjustment will last for 7 days. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Clients">Clients</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Clients"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sina produces mobile applications for various platforms to access Sina Weibo, including <a href="/wiki/Android_(operating_system)" title="Android (operating system)">Android</a>, <a href="/wiki/BlackBerry_OS" title="BlackBerry OS">BlackBerry OS</a>, <a href="/wiki/IOS_(Apple)" class="mw-redirect" title="IOS (Apple)">iOS</a>, <a href="/wiki/Symbian_S60" class="mw-redirect" title="Symbian S60">Symbian S60</a>, <a href="/wiki/Windows_Mobile" title="Windows Mobile">Windows Mobile</a>, <a href="/wiki/Windows_Phone" title="Windows Phone">Windows Phone</a> and <a href="/wiki/HarmonyOS" title="HarmonyOS">HarmonyOS</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sina has also released a desktop client for <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a> under the product name Weibo Desktop.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="International_versions">International versions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: International versions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sina Weibo is available in both <a href="/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters" title="Simplified Chinese characters">simplified</a> and <a href="/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters" title="Traditional Chinese characters">traditional</a> Chinese characters. The site also has versions<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that cater to users from Hong Kong and <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a>. In 2011, Weibo developed an international edition in English and other languages. On 9 January 2018, the company ran a week-long public test of its English edition. </p><p>Sina Weibo's official iPhone and iPad apps are available in English. </p><p>Weibo International supports existing Weibo accounts and allows Facebook accounts to link to the platform; users can also use their mobile phone number (including international mobile phone numbers) to register new accounts.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Weibo_Stories">Weibo Stories</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Weibo Stories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>One of the most recent features of Weibo is Stories. "Weibo's stories" is a video function allowing users to record a video and save them in a separate "Story" menu in their profile page.<sup id="cite_ref-hicom-asia.com_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hicom-asia.com-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Weibo_VLOG">Weibo VLOG</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Weibo VLOG"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Weibo has also launched a new "Vlog" function. Now, every video with a hashtag VLOG will be available in the main search page under "VLOG" sub-menu.<sup id="cite_ref-hicom-asia.com_53-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hicom-asia.com-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Weibo_interviews">Weibo interviews</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Weibo interviews"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Weibo interviews are text-based interviews hosted on the Weibo platform.<sup id="cite_ref-:12_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 176">: 176 </span></sup> Users post questions to the person being interviewed via Weibo posts and that person responds in real-time.<sup id="cite_ref-:12_54-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 176">: 176 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Posting_via_text_message">Posting via text message</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Posting via text message"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>If a user links their Weibo account to a cell phone number, the user can both make and receive Weibo posts via text message.<sup id="cite_ref-:12_54-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 148">: 148 </span></sup> The user can then upload posts by texting them to 1069 009 009 and they will appear on Weibo in real time.<sup id="cite_ref-:12_54-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 158">: 158 </span></sup> Replies or comments to those posts are sent to the user via text message.<sup id="cite_ref-:12_54-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 158">: 158 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="IP_address">IP address</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: IP address"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Weibo began displaying IP addresses of users when posting and commenting in April 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Super-hashtags">Super-hashtags</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Super-hashtags"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A centralised approach to information in the form of a topic. Users can post and discuss within the super-hashtags. It is different from regular hashtags, users can apply to be the host and having the authorities to audit and shield the posts. Once the user choose to subscribe the super-hashtag, they will become a member of that community. Their level of membership will increase depend on the sacrifice to the degree of discussion of the super-hashtags (such as signing in, posting, commenting). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Paid_promotion">Paid promotion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Paid promotion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After publishing a post, you can choose to increase the exposure of the post by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.zhihu.com/question/391915783/answer/1232514119">paying</a> for it and promoting the content to a wider potential audience. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_services">Other services</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Other services"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Weilingdi (微领地, literally, <i>micro fief</i>) is another service bundled with Weibo. Similar to <a href="/wiki/Foursquare_City_Guide" title="Foursquare City Guide">Foursquare</a>, Weilingdi is a location-based social networking website for <a href="/wiki/Mobile_device" title="Mobile device">mobile devices</a>; the site grew out of Sina's 2011 joint venture with GeoSentric's <a href="/wiki/GyPSii" title="GyPSii">GyPSii</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sina's Tuding (图钉) photo-sharing service, similar to <a href="/wiki/Instagram" title="Instagram">Instagram</a>, is also produced by the same joint venture. Sina Lady Weibo (新浪女性微博) specializes in women's interests. Weibo Data Center enables users to access data analysis about a topic of their choice, Sina Weibo's official data, and demographic information. Sina Weibo has also recently released a desktop version available for free download at its website.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_50-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Controversies">Controversies</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Controversies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Racism">Racism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Racism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 2 May 2021, a Weibo account belonging to the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party" title="Chinese Communist Party">Chinese Communist Party</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Central_Political_and_Legal_Affairs_Commission" title="Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission">Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission</a> posted an image of rocket <a href="/wiki/Long_March_5B" class="mw-redirect" title="Long March 5B">Long March 5B</a>'s launch next to a photo of mass cremations of the dead in India as a result of the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a> with the caption "China lighting a fire versus India lighting a fire". The post was quickly deleted after it faced massive backlash from users and hashtag related to the post also was deleted.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to a report by the <a href="/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch" title="Human Rights Watch">Human Rights Watch</a>, racist content targeting <a href="/wiki/Black_people" title="Black people">black people</a> are strongly prevalent in Chinese social media platforms including Weibo.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Censorship">Censorship</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Censorship"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_China" title="Internet censorship in China">Internet censorship in China</a></div> <p>In cooperation with <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China">internet censorship in China</a>, Sina sets strict controls over the posts on its services.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Posts with links using some URL shortening services (including Google's goo.gl), or containing blacklisted keywords,<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> are not allowed on Sina Weibo. Posts on politically sensitive topics are deleted after manual checking. Users with few followers may be able to post on censored topics with relative freedom until they reach a critical mass of followers, which triggers enforced content supervision.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sina Weibo is believed to employ a distributed, heterogeneous strategy for censorship that has a great amount of <a href="/wiki/Defense-in-depth" class="mw-redirect" title="Defense-in-depth">defense-in-depth</a>, which ranges from keyword list filtering to individual user monitoring. Nearly 30% of the total deletion events occur within 5–30 minutes, and nearly 90% of the deletions happen within the first 24 hours.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 9 March 2010, the posts by Chinese artist and activist <a href="/wiki/Ai_Weiwei" title="Ai Weiwei">Ai Weiwei</a> at Sina Weibo to appeal for information on the <a href="/wiki/2008_Sichuan_earthquake#Collapse_of_schoolhouses" title="2008 Sichuan earthquake">2008 Sichuan earthquake</a> going public were deleted and his account was closed by the site administrator. Attempts to register accounts with usernames alluding to Ai Weiwei were blocked.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 30 March 2010, Hong Kong singer <a href="/wiki/Gigi_Leung#Sina_microblog_incident" title="Gigi Leung">Gigi Leung blogged</a> about the jailed <a href="/wiki/Zhao_Lianhai" title="Zhao Lianhai">Zhao Lianhai</a>, an activist and father to a <a href="/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal" title="2008 Chinese milk scandal">2008 Chinese milk scandal</a> victim; that post was also deleted by an administrator shortly thereafter.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 16 March 2012, all users of Sina Weibo in Beijing were told to register with their real names.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Starting on 31 March 2012, the comment function of Sina Weibo was shut down for three days, along with <a href="/wiki/Tencent_QQ" title="Tencent QQ">Tencent QQ</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2012, Sina Weibo introduced new restrictions on the content its users can post.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 2012, Sina Weibo heavily censored discussion of the <a href="/wiki/Foxconn" title="Foxconn">Foxconn</a> strikes in October 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 4 June 2013, Sina Weibo blocked the terms "Today", "Tonight", "<a href="/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989" class="mw-redirect" title="Tiananmen Square protests of 1989">June 4</a>", and "Big Yellow Duck". If a user searched using these terms, a message would appear stating that according to relevant laws, statutes and policies, the results of the search couldn't be shown. This censorship was implemented because a <a href="/wiki/Photoshop" class="mw-redirect" title="Photoshop">photoshopped</a> version of <a href="/wiki/Tank_Man" title="Tank Man">Tank Man</a> which swapped all tanks in the photo with the sculpture <a href="/wiki/Rubber_Duck_(sculpture)" title="Rubber Duck (sculpture)">Rubber Duck</a> had been circulating on Twitter.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to a <a href="/wiki/BBC_News" title="BBC News">BBC News</a> report, the decreasing number of users since 2014 can be attributed both to the crackdown by the Chinese government on the use of aliases to create accounts and to the rising threat from competitor <a href="/wiki/WeChat" title="WeChat">WeChat</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 8 September 2017, Weibo gave an ultimatum to its users to verify their accounts with their real names by 15 September.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The platform announced that same month that it would hire 1000 "supervisors" from among its users to engage in censorship. These supervisors were supposed to report at least 200 content pieces per month, with those with the best results being rewarded with special prizes, including iPhones and notebooks.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 18 February 2018, Sina Weibo provided a "Comment moderation" function for both head users and official members. Comments received after opening this feature will not be displayed immediately, instead of requiring approval from moderators. Users can utilize this feature to avoid illegal content appearing in their comment section.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2018, Weibo began a crackdown on anime, games, and short videos depicting "<a href="/wiki/Pornography" title="Pornography">pornography</a>, gore, <a href="/wiki/Violence" title="Violence">violence</a> and <a href="/wiki/Homosexuality" title="Homosexuality">homosexuality</a>". The <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party" title="Chinese Communist Party">CCP</a> criticized Weibo's move, following which the company decided to exclude homosexual content from the purge.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 11 June 2020, the Cybersecurity Administration of China ordered Weibo to suspend its "trending topics" page for a week. The CAC accused Weibo of "dissemination of illegal information".<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 22 February 2022, Horizon News accidentally posted on its Weibo page its instructions not to post anti-Russia content related to the crisis between Russia and Ukraine.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2023, Sina Weibo suspended more than 1,000 social media accounts of critics of the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_government_response_to_COVID-19" title="Chinese government response to COVID-19">Chinese government response to COVID-19</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fake_social_media_engagement">Fake social media engagement</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Fake social media engagement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Chinese social media is dominated by a strong influencer and celebrity fandom culture. Celebrities and digital influencers, or key opinion leaders (KOLs),<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> compete fiercely for higher follower counts to attract lucrative brand deals. Despite some efforts undertaken by Weibo to curb fake engagement,<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the issue remains pervasive due to the incentives for influencers and the advanced nature of fake engagement tools.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2018, a government crackdown exposed widespread manipulation on Sina Weibo, resulting in the temporary banning of numerous celebrities from its rankings. Notable figures like <a href="/wiki/Wang_Sicong" title="Wang Sicong">Wang Sicong</a> were removed from the "hot searches" list, revealing a black market for manipulating rankings. Celebrities and KOLs exploit these tactics to enhance their visibility and suppress unfavorable stories. Weibo acknowledged this problem, listing banned terms and promising increased efforts to manage illegal content. Despite these measures, services offering to boost hashtags into top trending topics for a fee remain prevalent.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Weibo is also inundated with fake followers, with 10,000 zombie followers costing around 10 yuan according to a 2019 <i>Caixin</i> report. Celebrity fan clubs act as comprehensive fake social media traffic generators, employing dedicated teams to create content and boost engagement figures.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Reports indicate that a significant portion of top influencers have used these services to meet the minimum follower requirements for attracting advertisers.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_84-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Promotions">Promotions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Promotions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Weibo_paid_ads">Weibo paid ads</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Weibo paid ads"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Average organic post view is around 10% – 15% on Weibo. To attract more followers, there are 3 types of paid ads options available:<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ol><li><b>Sponsored Post:</b> Promotes to current followers and/or potential followers.</li> <li><b>Weibo Tasks:</b> Allows advertisers to pay for other accounts to repost, which in turn reach target audiences.</li> <li><b>Fensi Tong</b> (<b>粉丝通</b>): The most well known paid advertising option on Weibo; allows more specific targeting options, including interests, gender, location and devices. Advertisers can choose between CPM (cost per million; 0.5CNY per thousand exposure) and CPC (<a href="/wiki/Cost-per-engagement" title="Cost-per-engagement">cost per engagement</a>[[]]; 0.5CNY per effective engagement). Companies or organizations often use Fensitong and pay well-known Sina Weibo users (usually those with more than 1 million followers) to advertise to their followers.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Livery_airplane">Livery airplane</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Livery airplane"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 8 June 2011, <a href="/wiki/Tianjin_Airlines" title="Tianjin Airlines">Tianjin Airlines</a> unveiled an <a href="/wiki/Embraer_E-190" class="mw-redirect" title="Embraer E-190">Embraer E-190</a> jet in special Sina Weibo <a href="/wiki/Livery" title="Livery">livery</a> and named it "Sina Weibo plane" (新浪微博号). It is the first commercial airplane to be named after a website in China.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Villarreal_CF">Villarreal CF</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Villarreal CF"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In January 2012, Sina Weibo also announced that they would be sponsoring Spanish football club <a href="/wiki/Villarreal_CF" title="Villarreal CF">Villarreal CF</a> for its match against <a href="/wiki/FC_Barcelona" title="FC Barcelona">FC Barcelona</a>, to increase its fanbase in China.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="CCTV_2018_New_Year's_Gala"><span id="CCTV_2018_New_Year.27s_Gala"></span>CCTV 2018 New Year's Gala</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: CCTV 2018 New Year's Gala"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 5 February 2018, Weibo officially announced that it will become the exclusive partner of the New Media Social Platform of the <a href="/wiki/CCTV_Spring_Festival_Gala" class="mw-redirect" title="CCTV Spring Festival Gala">CCTV Spring Festival Gala</a> in 2018 to attract more Chinese people worldwide to use Weibo.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Statistics">Statistics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Statistics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sina_Weibo's_official_accounts"><span id="Sina_Weibo.27s_official_accounts"></span>Sina Weibo's official accounts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Sina Weibo's official accounts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ol><li>Weibo's Secretary: 194,144,293</li> <li>Weibo's Service Center: 180,564,151</li> <li>Weibo's Staff: 155,444,287</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Most_popular_accounts_(individuals)"><span id="Most_popular_accounts_.28individuals.29"></span>Most popular accounts (individuals)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Most popular accounts (individuals)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As of 19 April 2019, the following ten individuals managed the most popular accounts (name handle in parentheses) and the number of followers: </p> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Xie_Na" title="Xie Na">Xie Na</a> (xiena): 125,742,516</li> <li><a href="/wiki/He_Jiong" title="He Jiong">He Jiong</a> (hejiong): 120,013,900</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yang_Mi" title="Yang Mi">Yang Mi</a> (yangmiblog): 107,601,756</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angelababy" title="Angelababy">Angelababy</a> (realangelababy): 102,212,814</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chen_Kun" title="Chen Kun">Chen Kun</a> (chenkun): 93,456,957</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhao_Liying" title="Zhao Liying">Zhao Liying</a> (zhaoliying): 86,690,864</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vicky_Zhao" class="mw-redirect" title="Vicky Zhao">Vicky Zhao</a> (zhaowei): 85,650,051</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jackson_Yee" title="Jackson Yee">Jackson Yee</a> (yiyangqianxi): 84,620,416</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yao_Chen" title="Yao Chen">Yao Chen</a> (yaochen): 83,811,714</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deng_Chao" title="Deng Chao">Deng Chao</a> (dengchao): 80,972,525</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Record-setting_posts">Record-setting posts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Record-setting posts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 13 September 2013, the unverified handle "veggieg" (widely believed to be <a href="/wiki/Faye_Wong" title="Faye Wong">Faye Wong</a>) posted a message suggesting that she had divorced her husband. The message was commented and re-posted more than a million times in four hours. The record was broken on 31 March 2014 by <a href="/wiki/Wen_Zhang" title="Wen Zhang">Wen Zhang</a>, who posted a long apology admitting an extramarital affair when his wife <a href="/wiki/Ma_Yili" title="Ma Yili">Ma Yili</a> was pregnant with their second child. This message was commented and re-posted more than 2.5 million times in 10 hours. (Ma's response generated 2.18 million responses in 12 hours.)<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 22 June 2014, <a href="/wiki/TFBOYS" class="mw-redirect" title="TFBOYS">TFBOYS</a> member Wang Junkai was awarded a Guinness World Record title for a Weibo post that was reposted 42,776,438 times.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Luhan_(singer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Luhan (singer)">Luhan</a> holds the Guinness World Record for most comments.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_social_networking_services" title="List of social networking services">List of social networking services</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tencent_Weibo" title="Tencent Weibo">Tencent Weibo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FreeWeibo" title="FreeWeibo">FreeWeibo</a> – the uncensored and anonymous version of Sina Weibo, operated by an unaffiliated third party</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Weibo&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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