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http://dx.doi.org/10.5392/JKCA.2013.13.05.396

Marketing Strategies using Social Network Analysis : Twitter's Search Network  

Yoo, Byong-Kook (인천대학교 무역학부)
Kim, Soon-Hong (인천대학교 무역학부)
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Abstract
The role of influentials to maximize word-of-mouth effect can be seen to be very important. In this paper, we have the perspective of corporate marketing to understand Twitter influentials. We start from the point of view of who can induce eventually most exposure of tweets when he tweets the company's specific marketing messages. From this perspective, we observe both the follower influentials who have many followers and the retweet influentials who induce many retweets by visualizing graphs from network data collected via Twitter Search API. Although some users have small followers they may bring much more exposure than follower influentials if they can induce retweets by follower influentials. On the contrary, some retweet influentials who don't induce retweets by follower influentials may bring very little exposure. This suggests the fact that some small users who can induce retweets by influentials might have more important role than influentials themselves in order to increase the exposure of tweets. These users also are seen to have high centrality measures in the network structure.
Keywords
Twitter Influentials; Followers; Retweets; Exposure; Network Centrality;
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