Sina Weibo Sina Weibo Sina Weibo () is a Chinese microblogging (weibo) website. Launched by Sina Corporation on 14 August 2009, it is one of the most popular social media platforms in China. As of Q3 2018, Sina Weibo has over 445 million monthly active users, with surging stocks, advertising sales, revenue and total earnings in the quarter. At the start of 2018, it surpassed US$30 billion market valuation mark for the first time. In March 2014, Sina Corporation announced a spinoff of Weibo as a separate entity and filed an IPO under the symbol WB. Sina carved-out part 11% of Weibo
Mass surveillance in China Weibo. At the beginning of 2018, Ma Huateng, chairman and CEO of Tencent, said that WeChat's MAU(monthly active users) across the globe reached a billion for the first time. Since Tencent has good cooperation with the central government to implement self-censorship and mass surveillance, it enjoys the dominance in China. Other messaging apps, such as WhatsApp, messenger, Line, etc, are mostly blocked or even forced out of the Chinese market. Chinese Internet users have several ways to circumvent censorship. Netizens generally rely on VPN, i.e.“Virtual Private Networks”, to get access to those blocked websites and messaging apps. However, in July