How social is Twitter use? Affiliative tendency and communication competence as predictors

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Highlights：

• Affiliative tendency and communication competence jointly affect Twitter motivations.

• Those high on both are more likely to use Twitter for network expansion.

• Communication competence has no influence on relationship maintenance motivation.

• Network expansion motivation positively predicts the number of tweets and retweets.

• Surveillance motivation is positively associated with Twitter network size.

摘要

•Affiliative tendency and communication competence jointly affect Twitter motivations.•Those high on both are more likely to use Twitter for network expansion.•Communication competence has no influence on relationship maintenance motivation.•Network expansion motivation positively predicts the number of tweets and retweets.•Surveillance motivation is positively associated with Twitter network size.

论文关键词：Affiliative tendency,Communication competence,Social enhancement,Twitter

论文评审过程：Available online 10 August 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.07.034