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Twitter power: Tweets as electronic word of mouth
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It is found that microblogting is an online tool for customer word of mouth communications and the implications for corporations using microblogging as part of their overall marketing strategy are discussed.Abstract:
In this paper we report research results investigating microblogging as a form of electronic word-of-mouth for sharing consumer opinions concerning brands. We analyzed more than 150,000 microblog postings containing branding comments, sentiments, and opinions. We investigated the overall structure of these microblog postings, the types of expressions, and the movement in positive or negative sentiment. We compared automated methods of classifying sentiment in these microblogs with manual coding. Using a case study approach, we analyzed the range, frequency, timing, and content of tweets in a corporate account. Our research findings show that 19p of microblogs contain mention of a brand. Of the branding microblogs, nearly 20p contained some expression of brand sentiments. Of these, more than 50p were positive and 33p were critical of the company or product. Our comparison of automated and manual coding showed no significant differences between the two approaches. In analyzing microblogs for structure and composition, the linguistic structure of tweets approximate the linguistic patterns of natural language expressions. We find that microblogging is an online tool for customer word of mouth communications and discuss the implications for corporations using microblogging as part of their overall marketing strategy. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.read more
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Techniques for Sampling Online Text-Based Data Sets
Lynne M. Webb,Yuanxin Wang +1 more
TL;DR: This chapter reviews traditional sampling techniques and suggests adaptations relevant to big data studies of text downloaded from online media such as email messages, online gaming, blogs, micro-blogs, and social networking websites.
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The role of identification, participation andattachment in building brand equity insocial networking sites
TL;DR: The findings indicate that consumer identification with the brand and the community has a positive impact on participation on brand pages as well as on attachment to the brand, and brand loyalty, perceived quality, willingness to pay a price premium, and word-of-mouth are all predicted by brand attachment.
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Predicting Ratings for New Movie Releases from Twitter Content
Wernard Schmit,Sander Wubben +1 more
TL;DR: Results show that prediction performance based on textual features derived from the corpus of tweets improved on the baseline for both regression and classification tasks.
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Spreading the word: A social-psychological exploration of word-of-mouth traveller information in the digital age
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the role of word-of-mouth information diffusion within everyday travel behavior and its emerging applications in the field of online traveller information, within a framework of social-psychological theories of behaviour and decision theory.
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Digital Brands and Web 3.0 Enterprises: Social Network Analysis and Thematic Analysis of User activities and Behavioral Patterns in Online Retailers
TL;DR: This research studied the network of tweets in a special events namely Black Friday which DigiKala offered considerable discounts for the customers and thematic analysis method applied to analyze the sent tweets to achieve users’ behavioral patterns.
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Electronic word-of-mouth via consumer-opinion platforms: What motivates consumers to articulate themselves on the Internet?
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