article_snippet.sent: Manchester United have over eight million followers on Weibo, almost double that of Twitter .
article_snippet.sent: Manchester United also have over eight million Weibo followers compared to 2.4million on Twitter .
article_snippet.sent: In Twitter’s place is a microblogging site called Weibo which has an incredible 27.2m Premier League fans – just one million short of the total number of Premier League fans on the whole of Twitter worldwide.
article_snippet.sent: Manchester United have 8,872,812 Weibo followers compared with 4,870,000 on Twitter, while Manchester United have 8,320,909 compared with just 2,420,000.
article_snippet.sent: Arsenal have 3.6million followers on Weibo compared to 5.6 million on Twitter .
article_snippet.sent: Elsewhere, EvertonUnited’s support is very much in the infancy with just 527 of the 275m Weibo users following Roberto Martinez’s side.
article_snippet.sent: Of the 10 Premier League clubs active on Weibo, six –
article_snippet.sent: Chelsea, Liverpool have 2.3million followers on Chinese site Weibo compared to 4.2million on Twitter .
article_snippet.sent: We can say with confidence that more the Premier League teams will be active on Weibo next season. '
article_snippet.sent: As always, football and the Premier League is leading the way with new technologies, but we expect follower figures on both Twitter and Weibo to balance out to reflect fan bases as the platforms mature.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Man United and Man City have over 8million followers each on Weibo .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Five Premier League clubs feature in the top 12 on Weibo .
  