(XINHUA)

Xue Biqun, a 60-year-old micro-blogger known as Xue Manzi on Sina Weibo, a Twitter-like blogging service, was detained for alleged group sex with prostitutes.

His detention sent ripples across Chinese cyberspace as he was a star blogger with 12 million followers.

The Chinese American issued about 85,000 posts via his Weibo account, including unverified information later proved to be rumors, while also posting various advertisements to make money.

Police said they are investigating many netizen reports that Xue's activities on the Internet involved crimes.