Purposive sampling on Twitter: A case study

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3510-3519

  Sibona, Christopher ^a   Walczak, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SURVEYS; WEBSITES;

FACEBOOK; INTERNET BASED; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; RECRUITMENT PROCESS; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84857972893     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2012.493     Document Type: Conference Paper

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