Unfriend or ignore tweets?: A time series analysis on Japanese Twitter users suffering from information overload

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Highlights:

• We analyzed the coping strategies that information-overloaded Japanese Twitter users employ.

• In Twitter, users can control the amount of information on their own initiative.

• More than one third of users do not view all received tweets.

• In spite of information overload, users continue to increase the number of friends.

• The more the users feel information overloaded, the more they avoid viewing all tweets.

摘要

•We analyzed the coping strategies that information-overloaded Japanese Twitter users employ.•In Twitter, users can control the amount of information on their own initiative.•More than one third of users do not view all received tweets.•In spite of information overload, users continue to increase the number of friends.•The more the users feel information overloaded, the more they avoid viewing all tweets.

论文关键词:Information overload,Social media,Twitter,Tweet processing methods,Unfriend

论文评审过程:Received 25 June 2015, Revised 20 June 2016, Accepted 27 July 2016, Available online 13 August 2016, Version of Record 13 August 2016.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.07.059