Sina Weibo (Deprecated) as a Benchmarking source

Updated 

Get a more comprehensive benchmarking experience by adding a Sina Weibo account in Benchmarking.

Sina Weibo is a Chinese microblogging website. Akin to a hybrid of Twitter and Facebook, it is one of the most popular sites in China. Sprinklr supports various benchmarking features once you link your Sina Weibo account. In this guide, we will walk through how to link your Sina Weibo account to Benchmarking.

Overview of Sina Weibo as a source

  • Source: Sina Weibo

  • Source of data: Vendor (via Public YouTube APIs)

  • Latency

    • Once a day for the first 15 days 

    • Data refreshed immediately after reaching API

  • Historical data

    • Auto backfill: Not available

    • Manual backfill: 3 years

  • Duration of monitoring: 15 days

Sina Weibo-specific data entities in benchmarking and major engagement widgets

Name

Type

Definition

Brand Messages Count

Metric

The number of outbound messages that have been published by the brand page. This metric can be used with dimensions like Message Sub Type.

Fan Messages

Metric

Fan Messages include all comments, replies, and mentions made by a fan on the brand's account page.

Fan Messages Replied Count

Metric

Count of Fan Messages on which the brand has replied.

Fan Messages Not Replied Count

Metric

Count of Fan Messages on which the brand has not yet replied.

Followers Count

Metric

Number of people following the count.

Message Count

Metric

The total number of messages for an account including inbound and outbound messages.

How to add Sina Weibo link to the brand?

  1. Click the New Tab icon. Under Platform Modules, click All Settings within Listen.

  2. On the Platform Settings window, search and select Brands within Manage Customer.

  3. Click Add Brand in the top right corner of the Brands window.

  4. Under the Account section, click Add More Accounts to add a new account.

  5. On the Add More Accounts popup window, click Sina Weibo and then enter single or multiple URLs of the Sina Weibo accounts to be added.

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  6. Click Add. For successful addition, a success message will be displayed saying "URLs have been successfully added to our database". On failure, an error message will be displayed as "Please correct the errors and resubmit".

  7. Click Save.

Limitations

  • It might take between 2 to 24 hours for data to populate on the Benchmarking dashboards. There is no fixed time frame.

  • While adding account URLs, make sure you keep your account URLs fixed to the domain name, excluding the remaining path in the Add Account URL fields. For example –

    Incorrect wayhttp://abc123.com/solutions/example=...test2#section3 (will not fetch results for that account)

    Correct way – http://abc123.com/solutions

  • A maximum of 10 accounts can be added at a time in the Add URL section with comma(,) separated.

  • Only Public pages can be accessed in Benchmarking. Group pages, community pages, and private accounts are not supported in Benchmarking.

Frequently asked questions

If the Weibo Official Account holder has enabled Weibo DM and grants Access to the Development center, then the Native access to the Custom menu feature will freeze (Team can use the native direct message. Chat system as normal but the reply made natively will not get reflected/captured in Sprinklr). The User while using Direct Message with the OA will view the existing – custom menu which is set via developer mode using API.

Vice versa - If a custom menu is set natively and the OA switches to the Development center then it will still show the existing custom menu set natively until it's been updated via API using the Development center.

For further details, refer to this KB article.

Sina Weibo will be available as GA (generally available), but if required, a customer can disable them using DP support.

Yes, we get the data of fan messages and AI models run on this data and give insights.

Yes, Paid Post Detection model helps in classifying whether a post is paid/organic.

Yes, we can configure smart alerts for Sina Weibo pages.