You might remember it as Sina Weibo
This spread through many posts rather than one canonical upload.
2009·Early YouTube
The public square of the Chinese internet, and its most watched one.
At a glanceThe facts
- Remembered as
- 新浪微博
- Spread in
- 2009
- Origin
- No single original
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
What this wasThe story
A microblog that became where Chinese public opinion happens, from celebrity scandal to disaster reporting, under continuous and visible moderation. Trends there reach hundreds of millions and are legible nowhere else.
Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later
Where it came fromWhat we know
This spread through many posts rather than one identifiable original. No copy is held here — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is what this page can tell you.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this. It spread through many posts rather than from one identifiable original.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.