Understanding twitter usage: What drive people continue to tweet

Ivy L.B. Liu; Christy M K CHEUNG; Matthew K.O. Lee

Understanding twitter usage: What drive people continue to tweet

Ivy L.B. Liu^*, Christy M K CHEUNG, Matthew K.O. Lee

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this study, we proposed a research model to investigate the factors influencing users' continuance intention to use Twitter. Building on the uses and gratification framework, we have proposed four types of gratifications for Twitter usage, including content gratification, technology gratification, process gratification, and social gratification. We conducted an online survey and collected 124 responses. The data was analyzed using Partial Least Squares. Our results showed that content gratifications and new technology gratification are the two key types of gratifications affecting the continuance intention to use Twitter. We conclude with a discussion of theoretical and practical implications. We believe that this study will provide important insights for future research on Twitter.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	PACIS 2010 Proceedings
Pages	928-939
Number of pages	12
Publication status	Published - Jul 2010
Event	14th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2010 - Taipei, Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China Duration: 9 Jul 2010 → 12 Jul 2010

Conference

Conference	14th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2010
Country/Territory	Taiwan, Province of China
City	Taipei
Period	9/07/10 → 12/07/10

Scopus Subject Areas

Information Systems

User-Defined Keywords

Content gratification
Continuance intention
Micro-blogging
Motivations
Process gratification
Social gratification
Social media
Technology gratification
Twitter
User satisfaction
Uses and gratifications
Web 2.0

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