The tweet goes on: Interconnection of Twitter opinion leadership, network size, and civic engagement

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Highlights：

• Twitter opinion leadership is rarely predicted by socio-demographics.

• Twitter opinion leadership is more strongly associated with online network size than offline network size.

• Twitter opinion leadership is significantly and positively associated with online civic participation.

• Twitter opinion leaders are categorized as two types – frequent tweet posters and frequent retweeters.

摘要

•Twitter opinion leadership is rarely predicted by socio-demographics.•Twitter opinion leadership is more strongly associated with online network size than offline network size.•Twitter opinion leadership is significantly and positively associated with online civic participation.•Twitter opinion leaders are categorized as two types – frequent tweet posters and frequent retweeters.

论文关键词：Twitter,Opinion leadership,Civic engagement,Network size

论文评审过程：Received 22 July 2016, Revised 5 December 2016, Accepted 7 December 2016, Available online 8 December 2016, Version of Record 21 December 2016.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.12.021