In May 2007, there were11Twitter-like websites in international computing. However, the most noteworthy thing is Twitter, which won the website award in the blog category at the Southwest South Africa Conference held in Austin, Texas in 2007.

Twitter's main competitors are Plurk and Jaiku. Later, Weibo's new service functions were constantly born. For example, Plurk has a viewing schedule that integrates video and photo sharing, and Identi and Pownce integrate Weibo with file sharing and event invitations. The popularity of Twitter abroad has finally made some people in China unable to sit still.