Social:Fanfou
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Type of site | microblogging |
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| Available in | Chinese: Simplified Chinese Traditional Chinese |
| Website | fanfou |
| Alexa rank |  53,307 ((As of February 2014))[1] |
| 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.[2]
It was closed on 7 July 2009 due to censorship in the wake of July 2009 Ürümqi riots.[3] It was reopened on 11 November 2010.[4]
References
- ↑ "Fanfou.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/fanfou.com. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
- ↑ http://it.sohu.com/20090602/n264287711.shtml
- ↑ Ward, Mark (2009-07-06). "China clampdown on tech in Urumqi". BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8136944.stm.
- ↑ 崔西 (2010-11-11). "王兴确认饭否域名逐步解封 暂无互动功能" (in Chinese). Sina Technology (Beijing). http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2010-11-11/23354855959.shtml.
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