Seeking and Sharing: Motivations for Linking on Twitter

@article{Holton2014SeekingAS,
  title={Seeking and Sharing: Motivations for Linking on Twitter},
  author={Avery E. Holton and Kanghui Baek and Mark Coddington and Carolyn Yaschur},
  journal={Communication Research Reports},
  year={2014},
  volume={31},
  pages={33 - 40},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143390964}
}
A survey of Twitter users revealed a central social role for hyperlinks, indicating their use to seek information by soliciting reciprocal linking from other users in an increasingly important part of users’ engagement and information flows on Twitter.
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