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 ().
The Voice of China (season 1) remaining artists compete against each other, and the voting system is the same with the second round. The artist with the highest number of votes is the team champion and will advance to the finals. The season finale aired on Sunday, September 30, 2012 which took place at Shanghai Stadium in Shanghai, China. Bruce Liang 梁博 was named the winner. On finale night, Adam performed a duet with "Voice" contestant Zhang Wei 张玮 off his hit song, Whataya Want From Me which exploded with praise on Sina Weibo, China's Twitter-like service. The Voice of China (season 1) The first season