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
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