Microblogging in China 2010, it had been, respectively, 13.8% and 15.5%. In July 2009, Chinese microblogs were severely curtailed when most of the domestic weibo services such as Fanfou were shut down. But it brought the birth of others, such as Tencent Weibo and Sina Weibo, operated by large Chinese Internet companies. Sohu Weibo and NetEase Weibo were suspended in July 2010 under the order of the Chinese administrators. Weibo is now operated as a "beta version", enabling the user to circumvent prohibition. Due to the Internet censorship in China, all of the China-based weibo services are now controlled by various self-censorship policies
Internet in China Chinese social media sites. The Chinese government makes it impossible for foreign companies to enter the Chinese social media network. Without access to the majority of social media platforms used elsewhere in the world, the Chinese have created their own networks, just like Facebook, Myspace, Youtube, and Foursquare – but with more users – which is why every global company needs to pay attention to these sites. Some Chinese famous social medias are Sina Weibo, Tencent Weibo, Renren, PengYou, QQ, Douban etc. The rapidly increasing number of Internet users in China has also generated a large online shopping base in