Who reads corporate tweets? Network analysis of follower communities

19th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2013 - Hyperconnected World: Anything, Anywhere, Anytime

Volumn 5, Issue , 2013, Pages 3998-4008

  Helms, Remko W ^a   Werder, Karl ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Online communities; Social media; Social network analysis; Virtual communities

Indexed keywords

DATA COLLECTION; NETWORK STRUCTURES; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; PRODUCT SOFTWARE; SMALL WORLDS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

INDUSTRY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84893214588     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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