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
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