Chatter matters: How twitter can open the black box of online word-of-mouth

ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Rui, Huaxia ^a   Liu, Yizao ^a   Whinston, Andrew B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Social networks; Twitter; Word of mouth

Indexed keywords

BLACK BOXES; BOX OFFICE; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DYNAMIC PANEL DATA; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EXPLANATORY POWER; PRODUCT SALES; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; SOCIAL NETWORKS; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; TIME SERIES MODELS; TWITTER; WORD-OF-MOUTH;

COMMERCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MOTION PICTURES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84870973279     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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