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Fanfou

Fanfou (simplified Chinese: 饭否; traditional Chinese: 飯否; pinyin: Fànfǒu) is a Chinese microblogging (weibo) website. It was the first microblogging site in China.

Type of site

Yes

12 May 2007 (2007-05-12)

Active

History[edit]

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]

Fanfou website