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Tweeting Fast Matters, But Only If I Think About It: Information Updates On Social Media, Patric R. Spence, Kenneth Lachlan, Autumn Edwards, Chad Edwards
Tweeting Fast Matters, But Only If I Think About It: Information Updates On Social Media, Patric R. Spence, Kenneth Lachlan, Autumn Edwards, Chad Edwards
Chad Edwards
Social media have emerged as increasingly important sources through which the public seeks information concerning crises or risks. Despite this increased dependence, little is known about the psychological processes associated with perceptions of source credibility or the desire to seek additional information related to the risk. The current study investigates the role of speed of updates in credibility perceptions and information
seeking using Twitter. The results do not provide evidence of a direct relationship between update speed and the outcomes under consideration. They do, however, consistently support a mediation model in which cognitive elaboration mediates the relationship between update speed …