Showing posts with label University of Pittsburgh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label University of Pittsburgh. Show all posts

Monday, 29 July 2013

Get ready for a TV-like Twitter

        Social networking site Twitter, which has more than 500 million registered users, will become comparable to a non-evolving, static structure like TV in the future, a new study predicts.         The study from scholars at Columbia Business School and the University of Pittsburgh questions the sustainability of Twitter. "Get ready for a TV-like Twitter," said Professor Olivier Toubia, co-author of the study.       The research examined the motivations behind why everyday people, with no financial incentive, contribute to Twitter.      The study examined roughly...