22 Facts About Sina Weibo

In November 2018, Sina Weibo suspended its registration function for minors under the age of 14.

In July 2019, Sina Weibo announced that it would launch a two-month campaign to clean up pornographic and vulgar information, named "Project Deep Blue".

Sina Weibo is a platform based on fostering user relationships to share, disseminate, and receive information.

Sina Weibo initially invited a large number of celebrities to join the platform at the beginning, and has since invited many media personalities, government departments, businesses and non-governmental organizations to open accounts as well for the purpose of publishing and communicating information.

In June 2011, Sina announced an English-language version of Sina Weibo would be developed and launched, though content would still be governed by Chinese law.

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Sina Weibo executives invited and persuaded many Chinese celebrities to join the platform.

In June 2020, Sina Weibo was among 58 other Chinese apps that were banned by the Government of India.

Sina Weibo users interact more than Twitter users do, and while many topics that go viral on Weibo originate from the platform itself, Twitter topics often come from outside news or events.

Sina Weibo's "trending topics" is a list of current popular topics based partly on tracking user participation and partly on the preference of Weibo staff.

Sina produces mobile applications for various platforms to access Sina Weibo, including Android, BlackBerry OS, iOS, Symbian S60, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone and HarmonyOS.

Sina Weibo is available in both simplified and traditional Chinese characters.

In 2011, Sina Weibo developed an international edition in English and other languages.

Sina Weibo has recently released a desktop version available for free download at its website.

Sina Weibo is believed to employ a distributed, heterogeneous strategy for censorship that has a great amount of defense-in-depth, which ranges from keyword list filtering to individual user monitoring.

In May 2012, Sina Weibo introduced new restrictions on the content its users can post.

In October 2012, Sina Weibo heavily censored discussion of the Foxconn strikes in October 2012.

On 4 June 2013, Sina Weibo blocked the terms "Today, " "Tonight, " "June 4, " and "Big Yellow Duck.

On 8 September 2017, Sina Weibo gave an ultimatum to its users to verify their accounts with their real names by 15 September.

On 18 February 2018, Sina Weibo provided a "Comment moderation" function for both head users and official members.

Surprisingly, the CCP criticized Sina Weibo's move, following which the company decided to exclude homosexual content from the purge.

In January 2012, Sina Weibo announced that they would be sponsoring Spanish football club Villarreal CF for its match against FC Barcelona, to increase its fanbase in China.

On 5 February 2018, Sina Weibo officially announced that it will become the exclusive partner of the New Media Social Platform of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 2018 to attract more Chinese people worldwide to use Sina Weibo.