Microblogging in China been arrested and controlled by the Chinese government, is one of the most active Chinese microbloggers on Twitter. Twitter users include Chinese nationals, who participated in, or led, the Chinese democracy movement that took place on June 4, 1989, such as Liu Xiaobo, the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner and a political prisoner in China. Microblogging services such as PornToot are also banned in China due to their lack of censorship. Weibo's most significant competition is rival microblogging service, WeChat, as of 2014 the country's leading messaging application. Below is an alphabetical list of notable China-based microblogging/weibo services: Microblogging in
Microblogging in China Twitter, Facebook and Plurk have been blocked since then. Sina.com's CEO Charles Chao considered it to be an opportunity. Sina launched Sina Weibo on August 14, 2009. Its executives invited and persuaded many Chinese celebrities to join the service, which led to strong growth in user numbers. Two other Chinese Internet portals, Sohu and NetEase, launched the beta versions of their weibo sites almost simultaneously, on January 20, 2010. On January 30, another Internet portal Tencent closed its weibo service, Taotao, and started its new weibo service Tencent Weibo on March 5, 2010. Building on the large number of its