Sina Weibo in the IPO, and Alibaba owned 32% post IPO. The company began trading publicly on 17 April 2014. "Weibo" (微博) is the Chinese word for "microblog". Sina Weibo launched its new domain name weibo.com on 7 April 2011, deactivating and redirecting from the old domain, t.sina.com.cn to the new one. Due to its popularity, the media sometimes directly uses "Weibo" to refer to Sina Weibo. However, there are other Chinese microblogging/weibo services including Tencent Weibo (腾讯微博), Sohu Weibo (搜狐微博), and NetEase Weibo (网易微博). "Sina Weibo" is a Chinese microblogging (weibo) website and is one of the biggest social media platforms
Sina Weibo accounts and the rising threat from competitor WeChat. On September 8, 2017, Weibo gave an ultimatum to its users to verify their accounts with their real names by September 15. On February 18, 2018, Sina Weibo has provided a 'Comment moderation' function for both head users and official members. Comments received after opening this feature will not be displayed immediately, but after being approved by moderators. Users can utilize this feature to avoid illegal content appearing in their comment section. Average organic post view is around 10% – 15% on Weibo, in order to attract more followers, there are 3