More of a receiver than a giver: Why do people unfollow in Twitter?

ICWSM 2012 - Proceedings of the 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 499-502

  Kwak, Haewoon ^a   Moon, Sue ^b   Lee, Wonjae ^b  

^a TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION RELATIONSHIPS; EXPLANATORY POWER; LARGE-SCALE DATUM; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELING;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84890785152     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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