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Secondary Weibo data 12 Weibo is a valuable data source, and several institutes (see below) and individual researchers have embarked on projects that entail collecting Weibo data. Some of these data archives are available to the public and can be used as secondary data for relevant research.
- Zhifan Luo, Muyang Li
May 20, 2019 · More information about Sina Weibo. Weibo is a microblogging application, launched by Sina Corporation on August 14th, 2009, based on user relationships to share, disseminate and get information. Generally, it is similar to Twitter. Sina Weibo has become one of the top 2 social media platforms in China now.
Mar 26, 2020 · In a different study, a group of researchers from Hong Kong used Sina Weibo data to analyse misinformation. They collected both Twitter and Weibo data to understand the levels and spread of Ebola misinformation in 2013-2014. The researchers had to write a script to scrape Weibo data, as an API was not available at the time.
Aug 1, 2019 · Weibo is a microblogging application that is similar to Twitter, launched by Sina Corporation on August 14th, 2009, based on user relationships to share, disseminate and get information. Weibo has become one of the top 2 social media platforms in China nowadays. As of Q3 2018, this app has nearly 450 million users (compared to Twitter’s 300 ...
(2022). Collecting and Analyzing Weibo Data: A Roadmap for Social Research. In The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods, 2nd ed, SAGE Publications Ltd. Publication Reference Link: Break down of publication data into fields. Publication Title: Collecting and Analyzing Weibo Data: A Roadmap for Social Research Author Name: Muyang Li
Apr 27, 2020 · Social Feed Manager (SFM), open-source software developed by the George Washington University Libraries with the support of grants from the Institute for Museum and Library Services and the National Historical Preservation and Records Commission, is designed specifically to enable archivists and researchers to build collections of social media data.SFM provides the ability to collect content ...
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Apr 27, 2020 · This data set contains tweets archived since July 2016. The tweets are gathered via the Weibo API using Social Feed Manager developed by the George Washington University Libraries, an open source software to retrieve social media data from Twitter, Weibo and other platforms. This data archive is available for download.
