Fanfou

Fanfou
Type of site	microblogging
Available in	Chinese:; Simplified Chinese; Traditional Chinese
URL	fanfou.com
Commercial	Yes
Launched	12 May 2007
Current status	Active

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

History[]

Fanfou.com was founded by Wang Xing with the team that created Xiaonei on 12 May 2007. The website was developed in LAMP stack with Twitter-compatible APIs.

Hewlett-Packard became its first paid customer on June 2, 2009.^[1]

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

References[]

^ "惠普成为中国微博客网站饭否首个付费用户-搜狐It".
^ Ward, Mark (2009-07-06). "China clampdown on tech in Urumqi". BBC. Retrieved 2017-11-25.
^ 崔西 (2010-11-11). "王兴确认饭否域名逐步解封暂无互动功能" [Wang Xing confirms fanfou.com is unblocking, in read-only mode]. Sina Technology (in Chinese). Beijing. Retrieved 2017-11-25.

External links[]

Fanfou website

[1] "惠普成为中国微博客网站饭否首个付费用户-搜狐It".

[2] Ward, Mark (2009-07-06). "China clampdown on tech in Urumqi". BBC. Retrieved 2017-11-25.

[3] 崔西 (2010-11-11). "王兴确认饭否域名逐步解封暂无互动功能" [Wang Xing confirms fanfou.com is unblocking, in read-only mode]. Sina Technology (in Chinese). Beijing. Retrieved 2017-11-25.

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