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
Sina Weibo cooperation agreement. The turning point (October 2011 - first half of 2014) With more and more foreign stars entering Sina Weibo, language translation has become an urgent need for Chinese fans to communicate with foreign idols in zero distance. English is ok, but the Korean language is still a headache for most users. In January 2013, Sina Weibo and NetEase.com announced that they had reached strategic cooperation. When users browse the foreign language content issued by foreign stars of Sina Weibo, they can directly obtain the translation results through the YouDao Dictionary, which satisfies the language of Sina Weibo users.