A longitudinal study of follow predictors on Twitter

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 821-830

  Hutto, C J ^a   Yardi, Sarita ^b   Gilbert, Eric ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Social media; Social networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NETWORK STRUCTURES; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK STRUCTURES; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84877960308     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2470771     Document Type: Conference Paper

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