Information or attention? An empirical study of user contribution on Twitter

Information Systems and e-Business Management

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 309-324

  Rui, Huaxia ^a   Whinston, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Innovation; Social media; Twitter; User generated content

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864399434     PISSN: 16179846     EISSN: 16179854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10257-011-0164-6     Document Type: Article

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