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University of New Hampshire

2013

Generation Y

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Reactions Of Generation Y To Luxury Hotel Twitter Promotions, Katherine M. Woods Apr 2013

Reactions Of Generation Y To Luxury Hotel Twitter Promotions, Katherine M. Woods

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Social media refers to the means of interactions among people in which they create, share, and exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and networks (Merriam-Webster, 2013). Social media marketing refers to the process of gaining website traffic or attention through social media sites (Evans, 2008). In today’s society, social media refers mainly to websites including (but not limited to) Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+. The most popular and fastest growing of these social media venues is Twitter. Twitter was founded in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone. Since 2006, almost 200 million users across the globe …