Microblogging in China in spreading the news quickly and discussing and evaluating government response. In 2012, there were 309 million people microblogging in China. "Wei boke" (微博客) and "weixing boke" (微型博客), commonly abbreviated as "weibo" (微博), are Chinese words for "microblog". A China-based microblogging service often names itself a weibo by putting it after the name of the service (e.g. Tencent Weibo, Sina Weibo). A similar word "围脖" () is used as Internet slang for "weibo". Fanfou () is the earliest notable weibo service. It was launched in Beijing on May 12, 2007 by the co-founder of Xiaonei (now Renren) Wang Xing ().
Weibo (Tang dynasty) Hebei. Weibo features prominently in the film "The Assassin" (2015 film). Weibo (Tang dynasty) Weibo (; alternatively written Wei–Bo), also known as Tianxiong (), was a province or circuit (, "dào") of the mid to late Tang dynasty. The area was governed from the capital of Weizhou () in modern Daming County, Handan, Hebei, and controlled the southern Hebei and northern Shandong regions. In the post–An Lushan period, Tang Suzong combined Weizhou and Bozhou () under the command of the Weibo Army, and Tian Chengsi became the first "jiedushi" or military governor of Weibo. The Weibo region, ruled autonomously by