China Government’s Growing Weibo Footprint · Global Voices
Oiwan Lam

The number of Chinese government Weibo accounts has soared over the past few years and will continue to be so. Via China Digital Times:
The survey by the Chinese Academy of Governance found that by December 20, 2012, a total of 176,700 Weibo accounts had been opened by government organs and officials on the four major domestic Weibo service providers.