Empathic communities: reaching out across the Web
interactions
BT Technology Journal
Online interactions and social capital: distinguishing between new and existing ties
Social Science Computer Review
Why we twitter: understanding microblogging usage and communities
Proceedings of the 9th WebKDD and 1st SNA-KDD 2007 workshop on Web mining and social network analysis
Relationship between the level of intimacy and lurking in online social network services
Computers in Human Behavior
Computers in Human Behavior
Investigating social network patterns within an empathic online community for older people
Computers in Human Behavior
What is Twitter, a social network or a news media?
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
Online social networks: Why do students use facebook?
Computers in Human Behavior
A tale of two sites: Twitter vs. Facebook and the personality predictors of social media usage
Computers in Human Behavior
Computers in Human Behavior
Friendship: An old concept with a new meaning?
Computers in Human Behavior
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The present study investigates the influence of Twitter use and the number of followers and followees on perceived bridging and bonding online social capital. Data from a convenience sample of Twitter users (N=264) indicate that bonding social capital is associated with the number of followers whereas bridging social capital is influenced by the number of followees. Thus, the directed friendship model on Twitter affects different forms of social capital differently. In addition, the study found a negative curvilinear effect of the number of followees on bridging and the number of followers on bonding online social capital. This indicates that the number of followees/followers has positive effects on online bridging/bonding social capital, but only to a certain point. The paper concludes with a discussion of the results in light of theoretical considerations and of implications for future research on the effects of Twitter on social capital.