Sina Weibo in the IPO, and Alibaba owned 32% post IPO. The company began trading publicly on 17 April 2014. "Weibo" (微博) is the Chinese word for "microblog". Sina Weibo launched its new domain name weibo.com on 7 April 2011, deactivating and redirecting from the old domain, t.sina.com.cn to the new one. Due to its popularity, the media sometimes directly uses "Weibo" to refer to Sina Weibo. However, there are other Chinese microblogging/weibo services including Tencent Weibo (腾讯微博), Sohu Weibo (搜狐微博), and NetEase Weibo (网易微博). "Sina Weibo" is a Chinese microblogging (weibo) website and is one of the biggest social media platforms
Sina Weibo monthly active users; 85% of them use Weibo on their mobile; there are over 100 million messages posted by users each day; 70% of Weibo's active users are at university level; 50.10% of Weibo users are male, 49.90% are female; with 90 million followers, actress Xie Na is the number 1 Weibo celebrity. Although the competition in China social media platforms is very fierce, Sina Weibo still comes out and becomes the most popular one. The wider use of mobile technologies in China also increases the popularity of it. After the July 2009 Ürümqi riots, China shut down most of