What drives successful social networking services? A comparative analysis of user acceptance of Facebook and Twitter

Social Science Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 534-544

  Kwon, Sang Jib ^a   Park, Eunil ^a   Kim, Ki Joon ^b  

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

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Facebook; Social networking services; Technology acceptance model; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84912521372     PISSN: 03623319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soscij.2014.04.005     Document Type: Article

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