More than liking and bookmarking? Towards understanding twitter Favouriting Behaviour

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 346-355

  Meier, Florian ^a   Elsweiler, David ^a   Wilson, Max L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SURVEYS; USER INTERFACES;

BOOKMARKING; CORE FEATURES; INTERACTIVE FEATURES; MICRO-BLOGGING SERVICES; USER NEED;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84909954388     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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