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Does Twitter Create Similar Patterns Of Positivity/Negativity As Face-To-Face Word-Of-Mouth?, Nicholis Jones
Does Twitter Create Similar Patterns Of Positivity/Negativity As Face-To-Face Word-Of-Mouth?, Nicholis Jones
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Word-of-mouth communication is important to organizations because it is a free form of advertising and has been shown to be influential on consumers’ purchasing decisions. Marketers of course, would like WOM to be positive and thus increase brand reputation and sales. In the past decade, new forms of communication have created different channels for WOM to travel through. Current social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter allow one person to send a message to many almost instantaneously. This study’s objective is to examine the WOM on the networking site Twitter. Previous research has indentified the relative incidence rates of …