Tencent Weibo

Tencent Weibo

URL	t.qq.com
Commercial?	Yes
Type of site	microblogging
Available language(s)	Chinese: Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese
Owner	Tencent Holdings Ltd
Launched	April 1, 2010; 10 months ago
Current status	Active

Tencent Weibo
Traditional Chinese	騰訊微博
Simplified Chinese	腾讯微博
Transliterations Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Téngxùn Wēibó - Tongyong Pinyin Téngsyùn Wēibó - Wade–Giles T'eng-Hsun Wei-Po - Bopomofo ㄊㄥ˙ㄒㄩㄣ˙ㄨㄟ˙ㄅㄛ˙ Cantonese - Jyutping Tang4 Seon3 Mei4 Bok3 - Yale Romanization Tàhng Seun Mèih Bok

Tencent Weibo is a Chinese microblogging 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.

Features

Words using in Tencent Weibo comparing to those in Twitter

Tencent Weibo	Chinese	立即收听	收听	听众	广播	n条广播	转播	对话	名单
Translation	Listen	Listening	Audience / Listeners	Broadcast	n broadcast	Rebroadcast	Talk	List
Twitter	Follow	Following	Follower(s)	Tweet	n tweet(s)	Retweet	Reply	List

History

Early in 2007, Tencent launched a microblogging-like website Taotao.com. However, due to some operating problems, on January 26, 2010, Tencent announced to shut down and merge the website into the Qzone^[1]. Later in March, Qoocu.com (a blog focusing on products of Tencent) released some screenshots of the internal beta test of Tencent Weibo^[2]. On April 1, Tencent began its public beta test, people with an invitation code might take part in the test. And on the same day, Tencent released its QQ2010 version Beta3, with the microblogging feature included^[3].

References

External links

• t.qq.com