Microblogging in China in spreading the news quickly and discussing and evaluating government response. In 2012, there were 309 million people microblogging in China. "Wei boke" (微博客) and "weixing boke" (微型博客), commonly abbreviated as "weibo" (微博), are Chinese words for "microblog". A China-based microblogging service often names itself a weibo by putting it after the name of the service (e.g. Tencent Weibo, Sina Weibo). A similar word "围脖" () is used as Internet slang for "weibo". Fanfou () is the earliest notable weibo service. It was launched in Beijing on May 12, 2007 by the co-founder of Xiaonei (now Renren) Wang Xing ().
Sina Weibo 313 million monthly active users and 139 million daily active users; In combination with the critical time nodes for the development of Weibo, let us tentatively divide the growth of Weibo from its birth into three stages, namely; On 9 April 2013, Alibaba Group announced that it would acquire 18 percent of Sina Weibo for $586 million, with an option to buy up to 30 percent in the future. When Sina Weibo went to NASDAQ, Alibaba exercised the option. Now Alibaba owns 32 percent of Sina Weibo. According to iResearch's report on 30 March 2011, Sina Weibo had 56.5% of