What makes a book tweet popular? Analysis of the most retweeted content posted by Spanish and non-Spanish book publishers
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¿Qué hace que un tuit sobre un libro sea popular? Análisis de los contenidos más retuiteados creados por editoriales de libros españolas y extranjerasAbstract
The aim of this article is to identify content-related features of the most retweeted messages posted by Spanish and non-Spanish book publishers on Twitter. A content analysis has been conducted to identify the topic of the tweets and whether they include book title hashtags, images and hyperlinks, and if so, what the images are about and where the links point to. As a complement, a word association analysis has been carried out to determine which terms are associated with each of the different publishers. Overall, publishers tend to tweet about themselves and their books for marketing purposes. About half of the publishers have Twitter accounts. Spanish publishers’ tweets often contain literary quotes, while the top tweets by non-Spanish publishers are more likely to contain free prize draws. Publishers seeking to engage with potential readers on Twitter could consider quotes and giveaways to build their audience, in addition to tagging author @usernames in book related posts to help reach the author’s network.Citation
Mas-Bleda, A., Makita, M., Mrva-Montoya, A. and Thelwall, M. (2022) ¿Qué hace que un tuit sobre un libro sea popular? Análisis de los contenidos más retuiteados creados por editoriales de libros españolas y extranjeras. Revista Española De Documentación Científica, 45(3), e332. https://doi.org/10.3989/redc.2022.3.1904Journal
Revista Espanola de Documentacion CientificaAdditional Links
https://redc.revistas.csic.es/index.php/redc/article/view/1366Type
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© The Authors 2022. Published by Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.3989/redc.2022.3.1904ISSN
0210-0614ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.3989/redc.2022.3.1904
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