Microblogging in China The website's layout, API, and mode of use was highly similar to Twitter, which was created earlier in 2006. Fanfou's users increased from 0.3 million to 1 million in the first half of 2009. The users included HP China, the "Southern Weekly", artist Ai Weiwei, writer Lian Yue () and TV commentator Liang Wendao (). Some other weibo services, such as Jiwai, Digu, Zuosa and Tencent's Taotao were launched in 2006-2009. After the July 2009 Ürümqi riots, the CPC government shut down most of the domestic weibo services, including Fanfou and Jiwai. Many popular non China-based microblogging services such as
Billboard China partnered with company Vision Music Ltd.. On December 29, the website was establised online by the China branch. Initially, the site only published the U.S. publications' two mainly infulencial album and single charts. On April 21, 2017, Billboard China partnered with Nilsen Company and Chinese leading social website Weibo to create a social media music chart. Billboard China Billboard China is a music publication associated with American music business trade magazine Billboard. It was first established in 2016. On that same year,the website was launched online,with its mainly focus on music news,new music,etc. With the global expansion of Billboard to