Tencent Weibo Tencent Weibo Tencent Weibo is a Chinese microblogging (weibo) website launched by Tencent in April 2010, and is still currently under beta testing. Users may broadcast a message including 140 Chinese characters at most through the web, SMS or smartphone. Tencent Weibo is a social network that connects all users together. It enhances communication between friends. Users can share photos, videos and text with a 140-character limit. The reposting function of Tencent Weibo is similar to Twitter's "retweeting", which is replied in @ form. In comparison, Tencent Weibo encourages users to create new topics on their own. With the support
Sina Weibo might not always be in favor of government officials, many Chinese officials opened Weibo accounts as to give their own version of events. On 16 March 2012, all the Beijing users of Sina Weibo were told to register with their real names. From 31 March 2012, the comment function of Sina Weibo was shut down for three days, along with Tencent QQ. In May 2012, Sina Weibo introduced new restrictions on the content its 300 million users can post. An example of Sina Weibo's censorship and manipulation of discussion or public social activity was the blocking of Foxconn workers' strikes