Almighty Twitter, what are people asking for?

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-10

  Liu, Zhe ^a   Jansen, Bernard J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information seeking; Social networks; Social search; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878597295     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15508390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.14504901134     Document Type: Article

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