We have a slightly dormant working group on Google for Weibo, but there are some good posts in there and folks you might network with. http://blog.texifter.com/index.php/2012/05/05/sina-weibo-working-group/ People who join and participate in the group get free access to our Enterprise licenses. Our main problem so far has been that Weibo shut off our access to the API. However, if you have Weibo data you can upload it in .CSV format. We are working to restore access to the API via DiscoverText, for now, it is a suspended option: http://discovertext.com/aboutdt/import.aspx ~Stu On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Gilad Lotan <giladlotan@gmail.com> wrote:
Over the summer I've been working with a summer intern to sample and analyze data from Weibo. We've been collecting Weibo posts over the past couple months, sampling the public stream every few seconds, using multiple API keys coming from various IP addresses (yup, they heavily rate limit API access).
Some interesting facts about Weibo's API:
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