A tale of two sites: Twitter vs. Facebook and the personality predictors of social media usage

By David John Hughes, Moss Rowe, Mark Batey, Andrew Lee. 2012

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Social Data: Biases, Methodological Pitfalls, and Ethical Boundaries (2019, background): “9 For instance, studies looking at similarities and diﬀerences among social platforms found diﬀerences with respect to user personalities (Hughes et al., 2012), news spreading (Lerman and Ghosh, 2010), or content sharing (Ottoni et al., 2014).”
The Dark Triad and trait self-objectification as predictors of men's use and self-presentation behaviors on social networking sites (2015, background): “Second, existing research has largely investigated the Big 5 traits (Amichai-Hamburger & Vinitzky, 2010; Hughes et al., 2012; Ross et al., 2009; Seidman, 2013), narcissism (Carpenter, 2012; Panek, Nardis, & Konrath, 2013; Ryan & Xenos, 2011), and shyness and loneliness (Baker & Oswald, 2010; Ryan &…”
Tales from the Dark Side: Privacy Dark Strategies and Privacy Dark Patterns (2016, background): “As shown in Figure 2, users’ motivation to unsubscribe is challenged by activating their need to belong and the presentation of users’ social capital they would lose once they unsubscribe [7, 26].”
Using social media to enhance citizen engagement with local government: Twitter or Facebook? (2018, background): “Furthermore, Dardenne et al. (2011) observed that positive emotions in the social media are more likely to provoke interaction than a neutral state, while Hughes et al. (2012) reported the same for negative ones.”
The Big Five, Self-Esteem, and Narcissism as Predictors of the Topics People Write About in Facebook Status Updates (2015, methodology): “Openness is positively associated with frequency of social media use (Correa et al., 2010), and with using Facebook for finding and disseminating information, but not for socializing (Hughes et al., 2012).”
The Needs-Affordances-Features Perspective for the Use of Social Media (2018, neutral): “For example, research has found that the reduction of social pressure brought about by anonymity on Twitter makes people express more freely (Huberman et al., 2008; Hughes et al. 2012).”
User-generated-content versus marketing-generated-content: personality and content influence on traveler’s behavior (2018, background): “Hughes et al. (2012) found that openness is associated with Twitter social use.”
From "I Love You Babe" to "Leave Me Alone" - Romantic Relationship Breakups on Twitter (2014, background): “However, there has been a body of work on inferring personality traits from Twitter usage [32,17,37,11].”
Twenty-Five Years of Social Media: A Review of Social Media Applications and Definitions from 1994 to 2019 (2020, background): “Hughes et al.(40) Computers in Human Behavior 1,079”
Who are you and what do you value? Investigating the role of personality traits and customer-perceived value in online customer engagement (2016, neutral): “A new stream of research anchored in the loneliness theory indicates that individuals high in neuroticism use the internet on a frequent basis in order to avoid loneliness (Amichai-Hamburger & Ben-Artzi, 2003; Butt & Phillips, 2008; Correa et al., 2010; Hughes et al., 2012; Ryan & Xenos, 2011).”