Perceptions Of Twitter Research Articles

In Twitter we trust(ed): How perceptions of Twitter's helpfulness influence news post credibility perceptions and news engagement

This study examines the impacts of news veracity, source credibility, collective social endorsement, and perceptions of Twitter's utility on perceived credibility of and engagement with social media news posts. We conducted a 2 (Veracity: real vs. fake) × 2 (Source Credibility: credible vs. non-credible) x 2 (Collective Social Endorsement: high vs. low) online experiment (N = 271). In processing news posts, news veracity and source credibility influenced users' perceptions of post credibility, in that real news posts from credible sources were perceived as more credible than fake news posts from non-credible sources. Contrary to previous findings, social endorsement cues did not affect users' perceptions of post credibility or news engagement intent. More importantly, users' perceptions of Twitter's helpfulness in staying informed were associated with post credibility and intent to ‘like’ or share. Users with higher perceptions of Twitter's helpfulness were more likely to perceive posts as credible and more likely to engage with posts on social media. The results of this study have important implications for future research on news assessment and spread on social media.

Twitter activism: Understanding the Twittersphere as the foremost community for activism and dragging in Nigeria

This article appraises the use of Twitter as the principal platform for activism in Nigeria to underscore why it is preferred above all others when it comes to the formation and operation of activist communities. Drawing from reflexive thematic analysis of interviews ( n = 15), I demonstrate that four reasons explain why the Twittersphere has become the central platform for activism in Nigeria. These include the use of Twitter for activism, justice, and dragging; the functional uses made possible by Twitter’s architecture; twitter as a platform for young elite influence; and the perception of Twitter as a leveller. I expand on what these themes mean for Twitter activism and social media regulation, further arguing that research into digital activism and communities should start to recognise Twitter’s centrality as a tool of choice in the formation, coordination, and amplification of activist voices.

Twitter as a Potential Lifelong Learning Environment in Higher Education from Saudi Students’ Practices and Perceptions: A Case Study

One of higher education’s commitments is to provide students with the skills and knowledge needed for continued learning. Blending formal and informal learning approaches is the suggested approach to close the gap between learning in the real world and in classrooms. Social media is viewed as a bridge that can make learning seamless. This qualitative study aims to examine the use of Twitter as an educational environment in which to expand students’ informal lifelong learning. The case study itself discusses female Saudi master’s degree students engaged in learning activities on Twitter for a course at a university in Saudi Arabia. The study aimed to understand their perceptions of Twitter’s integration with course activities and investigated whether the integration of Twitter motivated students toward lifelong learning. Three students from the course participated in in-depth interviews and a content analysis of their tweets. The results indicate that students receive benefits from the integration, such as self-confidence, but also drawbacks, such as lack of information literacy skills. Key results from the content analysis indicated that participants engaged with the course’s Twitter account after the course formally finished. Formal learning hashtags in Twitter led some students to engage in a broader community. Suggestions for pedagogies were to be supported with necessary skills for lifelong learners and for the teacher to continue to engage with learners’ communities informally.

K-Nearest Neighbor Berbasis Particle Swarm Optimization untuk Analisis Sentimen Terhadap Tokopedia

Tokopedia is a popular marketplace used by e-commerce in Indonesia. Customers’ perception of Twitter towards Tokopedia can be used as an important source of information and can be processed into useful insights. Sentiment analysis is a solution that can be used to process the customers’ perception using K-Nearest Neighbor based on Particle Swarm Optimization. The purpose of this study is to classify customers’ perception based on positive, neutral, and negative classes. The test is carried out with four different scenarios and k values which are evaluated using a confusion matrix. Evaluation results showed the distribution of the dataset is 90:10 and the value of k = 1 is the best evaluation result, which is 88.11%. The feature selection was used for results by using Particle Swarm Optimization. The Particle Swarm Optimization used 20 iterations and 10 particles. It produced 97.9% the best evaluation accuracy, 96.17% precision, 96.62% recall, and 96.39% f-measure.

"WHAT WE CANNOT SPEAK ABOUT WE MUST TWEET": TRUST AMONG ISRAELI TWITTER USERS WITH DEPRESSION

Research on self-revealing online environments in general and on internet-based medical support groups in particular has demonstrated that participants in such environments customarily assume others to be worthy of intimacy that is indeed reciprocated, resulting in a generalized climate of mutual trust that nevertheless meets significant challenges in actual online practice. While most previous studies have examined this phenomenon in the context of blogs, forums, and social media groups explicitly devoted to specific _physical_ illnesses, in this study we focus on a "naturally" developing, unstructured, a-hierarchical "community"-of-sorts that is based on a shared _mental_ disorder – Israeli Twitter users with depression. In-depth interviews with these users demonstrate how the unique affordances of Twitter in Israel – and especially its lack of popularity and its construction as the "anti-Facebook" – have enabled it to become a discursive space in which non-hegemonic voices are more prominent.
 While Twitter users with depression were cautious in developing trust, once trust was inferred it became a central facet of their perception of Twitter and its supportive role. Users conceived of Twitter as a sanctuary and echo chamber in which people with depression can present their authentic selves to an empathetic, non-judgmental community of similar outcasts. At the same time, the community's expectations for profound authenticity paradoxically led some users to avoid tweeting about positive experiences. In addition, Twitter's marginal status allowed users to link their sense of _psychological_ reclusiveness to their sense of _political_ isolation in a climate in which leftist views are increasingly ostracized.

College-aged young consumers’ interpretation of Twitter and marketing information on Twitter

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate young consumers’ perceptions toward Twitter and marketing information on Twitter. Design/methodology/approach – The theoretical perspective guiding the study is interpretative phenomenology analysis, and the essay assignment and in-depth interviews were used to collect data. Findings – Five themes emerged from the current data regarding the participants’ perception of Twitter: trendy and cool; adoption, incubation and action; dependence on smartphone; entertainment and fun; and low involvement and high frequency; and three themes emerged toward their interpretation of marketing information on Twitter: randomness, awareness builder and relevance and fun. Originality/value – The previous research on the topic of Twitter and marketing is rather sporadic, lacking both breadth and depth. Specifically, two research gaps can be identified from the literature: first, companies and organizations’ strategic use of Twitter is the single focus of the previous research, and second, the dominate research orientation of the previous research has been quantitative, with a positivistic paradigm. The current study is designed to fill the above two research gaps by exploring young consumers’ interpretation of Twitter and marketing information on this particular social media platform from the perspective of consumers.

#TwitterforTeachers: The Implications of Twitter as a Self-Directed Professional Development Tool for K–12 Teachers

This mixed-methods study explores how K–12 teachers use Twitter. An online survey was disseminated via Twitter to gauge their usage of, access to, and perceptions of Twitter. The results indicated that teachers highly value Twitter as a means of self-directed professional development. Respondents who reported using Twitter multiple times a day were more likely to use it for professional purposes than personal ones. Chief among the reported perceived benefits were professional development and meaningful relationships that teachers formed with other teachers who use Twitter. Implications for practice, including the ability for teachers to seek professional development for their specific needs, are discussed.

트위터의 정보가 지속사용의도에 미치는 영향 : 정교화 가능성 모델을 중심으로

This study aims to investigate the factors influencing followers` continuous usage intention of twitter based on Elaboration Likelihood Model. In particular, central route(information itself) and peripheral route(twitterian`s trustworthiness) are tested to reveal which has a more influential role in effecting the continuous usage intention of power-twitter. Furthermore, this study tests the relationship of users` attitude and continuous usage intention. The results indicate that argument quality, accuracy(central route), source expertise and source trustworthiness (peripheral route) have an influence on attitude. However, trustworthy on central route is not significant. Argument quality, trustworthy, accuracy(central route) and source expertise(peripheral route) have an influence on perceived usefulness. But source trustworthiness on peripheral is not significant. Attitude has an influence on perceived usefulness, and attitude and perceived usefulness both have an influence on perceived usefulness. In conclusion, central route is more influential than peripheral route in forming a positive attitude towards arguments, which in turn leads to the perception of twitter`s usefulness, and in the end brings the continuous usage intention of twitter.