How and why people Twitter: the role that micro-blogging plays in informal communication at work

By Dejin Zhao, Mary Beth Rosson. Group, 2009

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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A longitudinal study of Facebook, LinkedIn, & Twitter use (2012, background): “(In contrast, Zhao and Rosson’s heaviest user posted four times a day).”
Detecting Automation of Twitter Accounts: Are You a Human, Bot, or Cyborg? (2012, background): “In addition to network-related studies, several previous works focus on sociotechnological aspects of Twitter [7], [8], [19], [20], [21], such as its use in the workplace or during major disaster events.”
Enhancing perceived interactivity through network externalities: An empirical study on micro-blogging service satisfaction and continuance intention (2012, background): “As one major purpose for using micro-blogs is to share visibility of interesting things with one's social networks [78], we might expect that playfulness would be a certain consequence of using micro-blogging services as well as an important antecedent to users' satisfaction.”
Tweeting disaster: hashtag constructions and collisions (2011, methodology): “In other cases, Twitter has been used as a communication tool in the workplace [27, 35].”
Learning Semantic Relationships between Entities in Twitter (2011, background): “People typically post short status messages, interesting information they read from daily news, updates on current hot topics, their views and opinions on a certain subject matter, developments in their profession, materials about their interests, et cetera [16,12,23].”
Tweets are forever: a large-scale quantitative analysis of deleted tweets (2013, background): “A large volume of research has been conducted on Twitter, including social network topology and properties [13, 11] as well as user classifications, behaviors, and topics of tweets [27, 26, 11, 10, 12].”
Microblogging Inside and Outside the Workplace (2010, methodology): “A few preliminary studies have begun to track the use of microblogs in the workplace (Zhao and Rosson 2009) but there are no published studies that provide a comprehensive and quantitative view into employee microblogging behavior.”
What is Twitter, a social network or a news media? (2010, background): “Zhao and Rosson qualitatively investigate the motivation of using Twitter [40].”
Want to be Retweeted? Large Scale Analytics on Factors Impacting Retweet in Twitter Network (2010, background): “Notable services include Twitter, Tumblr, Jaiku, Posterous, and Google Buzz.”
Social Media Use in Organizations: Exploring the Affordances of Visibility, Editability, Persistence, and Association (2013, neutral): “Zhao and Rosson (2009) interviewed 11 Twitter users at a large IT company and asked how microblogging might infl uence organizational communication.”
#TwitterSearch: a comparison of microblog search and web search (2011, background): “Zhao and Rosson [33] found people use Twitter for “gathering useful information for one‟s profession or other personal interests,” and “seeking for help and opinions,” and Naaman et al.”
Conversational tagging in twitter (2010, background): “Two studies of Twitter [7,14] report nearly identical reasons: to report daily activities, conversation, sharing information or URLs, and breaking news.”
Political Communication and Influence through Microblogging--An Empirical Analysis of Sentiment in Twitter Messages and Retweet Behavior (2012, background): “As microblogging services have recently gained wide popularity, users have adopted them for sharing news, promoting political views, marketing, and tracking real-time events [6][21][42].”