Fanfou

Fanfou is a Chinese microblogging (weibo) website. It was the first microblogging site in China.

History
Fanfou.com was founded by Wang Xing with the team that created Xiaonei on 12 May 2007. The website was developed in LAMP stack with Twitter-compatible APIs.

Hewlett-Packard became its first paid customer on June 2, 2009.

It was closed on 7 July 2009 due to censorship in the wake of July 2009 Ürümqi riots. It was reopened on 11 November 2010.