Tencent Weibo
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Type of site
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microblogging |
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| Available in | Simplified Chinese Traditional Chinese and English |
| Owner | Tencent Holdings Ltd |
| Website | t.qq.com |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Launched | April 1, 2010 |
| Current status | Active |
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| Simplified Chinese | 腾讯微博 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 騰訊微博 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Téngxùn Wēibó |
| Bopomofo | ㄊㄥ˙ㄒㄩㄣ˙ㄨㄟ˙ㄅㄛ˙ |
| Wade–Giles | T'eng-Hsun Wei-Po |
| Tongyong Pinyin | Téngsyùn Wēibó |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Tàhng Seun Mèih Bok |
| Jyutping | Tang4 Seon3 Mei4 Bok3 |
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, similar to Sina Weibo. 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 of QQ, Tencent doesn't intend to launch Tencent Weibo at a strategic level, but as a marketing tactic to curb competitors.
Many celebrities are Tencent Weibo users, including, Ma Huateng, Zhou Hongyi, Liu Xiang and Jet Li.
Initially only QQ users could register Tencent Weibo account corresponding to their own QQ number. Weibo accounts are not automatically registered for QQ users, they need to log in Tencent Weibo page for registration. Email address can be used for registration (formerly only QQ email address were supported). Posts can be shortened into an url.cn domain name. Each user can follow up to 2,000 people. Through the QQ client (Windows Simplified Chinese version of the QQ2010 Beta 3 or later version), QQ Pinyin input method, computer, smartphone (iPhone, Android, S60, and KJava ), SMS and MMS, users can broadcast microblogging messages. In addition, photos can be inserted in all form, except SMS. Also, users can add videos (QQ Video) and songs (QQ Music), which is currently only supported on the homepage.
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. Later in March, Qoocu.com (a blog focusing on products of Tencent) released some screenshots of the internal beta test of Tencent Weibo. 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. In the second quarter of 2012 it had 469 million registered users. On July 23, 2014, Tencent Inc announced that it will integrate its micro-blogging service's operation team into the company's news team, after media reported that it has dismissed its micro-blogging department and will stop upgrading its micro-blogging service.
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