Whose and what chatter matters? the effect of tweets on movie sales

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 863-870

  Rui, Huaxia ^a,b   Liu, Yizao ^b   Whinston, Andrew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic panel data; Movie sales; Social broadcasting networks; Social media; Twitter; Word of mouth

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PANEL DATA; SOCIAL BROADCASTING; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER; WORD-OF-MOUTH;

BROADCASTING; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MOTION PICTURES; SALES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84884205702     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2012.12.022     Document Type: Article

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