Sina Weibo the domestic microblogging services including the first weibo service Fanfou. Many popular non-China-based microblogging services like Twitter, Facebook, and Plurk have been blocked from viewing since then. Sina's CEO Charles Chao considered this to be an opportunity. SINA Corporation launched the tested version of Sina Weibo on 14 August 2009. Basic functions including message, private message, comment and re-post were made possible in September 2009. A Sina Weibo–compatible API platform for developing third-party applications was launched on 28 July 2010. On 1 December 2010, the website experienced an outage, which administrators later said was due to the increasing numbers of
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.