Fanfou

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

Fanfou
Type of site
microblogging
Available inChinese:
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
URLfanfou.com
CommercialYes
Launched12 May 2007 (2007-05-12)
Current statusActive

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

  1. http://it.sohu.com/20090602/n264287711.shtml
  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.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.