A tale of two sites: Twitter vs. Facebook and the personality predictors of social media usage

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 561-569

  Hughes, David John ^a   Rowe, Moss ^a,b   Batey, Mark ^a   Lee, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Facebook; Need for cognition; Personality; Sociability; Social network sites; Twitter

Indexed keywords

FACEBOOK; NEED FOR COGNITION; PERSONALITY; SOCIABILITY; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TWITTER;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84855563831     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2011.11.001     Document Type: Article

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