Sina Weibo, launched in 2010, has more than 500 million registered users with 100 million messages posted daily
China Employs Two Million Microblog Monitors State Media Say -- BBC
More than two million people in China are employed by the government to monitor web activity, state media say, providing a rare glimpse into how the state tries to control the internet.
The Beijing News says the monitors, described as internet opinion analysts, are on state and commercial payrolls.
China's hundreds of millions of web users increasingly use microblogs to criticise the state or vent anger.
Recent research suggested Chinese censors actively target social media.
The report by the Beijing News said that these monitors were not required to delete postings.
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My Comment: It would not surprise me that over time this "army" will decrease in numbers as the Chinese become more like the NSA and use computers to monitor web content and information.
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