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Understanding Customer Experience Diffusion on Social Networking Services by Big Data Analytics

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Social networking services (e.g., Facebook and Twitter) are playing a significant role of interacting with customers. In particular, most of businesses are trying to exploit such social networking services for more profit, since it has dramatically become an information carrier for customers who are disseminating latest information about products and services. Thus, this study examines how information shared by companies is distributed and what the important factors in understanding information dissemination are. More importantly, this study classifies the types of tweets posted by a company and then to investigate the effect of these types of tweets on diffusion. By using content analysis, this study defined three types, which are i) information provision (IF), ii) advertisement (AD), and iii) both (IFAD), with 8 specific concepts. These results indicate that the differences are significant for all three types of information content. It shows that companies can spread information more quickly by providing the IFAD type rather than the AD type.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIP) (No. NRF-2014R1A2A2A050-07154).

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Applications “Renato Caccioppoli”, University of Naples FEDERICO II, Naples, Italy

    Francesco Piccialli

  2. Computer Science Department, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea

    Jai E. Jung

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Piccialli, F., Jung, J.E. Understanding Customer Experience Diffusion on Social Networking Services by Big Data Analytics. Mobile Netw Appl 22, 605–612 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-016-0803-8

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