Microblogging in China Committee of the Communist Party of China, the People's Daily, also launched its own People's Weibo (人民微博) in February 2010, with some governmental organizations and officials blogging on it. Recent studies have shown that official microblogging has become a sophisticated e-government effort for social management, especially for local governments and state units. It has led to a gradual change in local government's social governance strategy and functional change from being a service provider to a 'service predictor'. The latter requires enhanced capabilities to deliver individualized services and institute state surveillance via commercial service providers. In doing so, government units are
Sina Weibo accounts and the rising threat from competitor WeChat. On September 8, 2017, Weibo gave an ultimatum to its users to verify their accounts with their real names by September 15. On February 18, 2018, Sina Weibo has provided a 'Comment moderation' function for both head users and official members. Comments received after opening this feature will not be displayed immediately, but after being approved by moderators. Users can utilize this feature to avoid illegal content appearing in their comment section. Average organic post view is around 10% – 15% on Weibo, in order to attract more followers, there are 3