Microblogging in China been arrested and controlled by the Chinese government, is one of the most active Chinese microbloggers on Twitter. Twitter users include Chinese nationals, who participated in, or led, the Chinese democracy movement that took place on June 4, 1989, such as Liu Xiaobo, the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner and a political prisoner in China. Microblogging services such as PornToot are also banned in China due to their lack of censorship. Weibo's most significant competition is rival microblogging service, WeChat, as of 2014 the country's leading messaging application. Below is an alphabetical list of notable China-based microblogging/weibo services: Microblogging in
Microblogging in China instant messaging service QQ's users, Tencent Weibo later attracted more registered users than Sohu Weibo and NetEase Weibo. The public beta versions of NetEase Weibo and Sohu Weibo were launched on March 20 and April 7, 2010, respectively. All these weibos, provided by the Chinese Internet giants, used the subdomain "t.example.com", such as t.sina.com.cn for Sina Weibo, t.qq.com for Tencent Weibo, t.sohu.com for Sohu Weibo, t.163.com for NetEase Weibo. On 7 April 2011, the leader of the weibo services Sina Weibo started to use an independent domain name weibo.com acquired earlier, in an attempt to build up its own brand.