Becoming a tweep: How prior online experiences influence Twitter use

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 680-702

  Hargittai, Eszter ^a   Litt, Eden ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adoption; celebrities; entertainment; longitudinal data; social network sites; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861973932     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2012.666256     Document Type: Article

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