Study Reveals Two Types of Twitter Users
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In a study of Twitter Mor Naaman and Jeffrey Boase found that 80 percent of users are “meformers,” people who use the platform to post updates on their everyday activities, social lives, thoughts and emotions. The remaining 20 percent are “informers” and share information, have larger social networks and are more interactive with their followers. Read their paper. via Study Reveals Two Types of Twitter Users . We try hard tha most of our post on Twitter would contain information and not meformation.
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