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Fanfou

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Type of site
  
microblogging

Alexa rank
  
53,307 (February 2014)

Website
  
fanfou.com

Commercial
  
Yes

Available in
  
Chinese: Simplified Chinese Traditional Chinese

Launched
  
12 May 2007 (2007-05-12)

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

History

Fanfou.com was created by Wang on 12 May 2007, originally running on a LAMP stack, as a Twitter clone complete with APIs.

It received funding from Hewlett-Packard on 2 June 2009.

It was closed on 7 July 2009 due to censorship, reopening on 11 November 2010.

References

Fanfou Wikipedia