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Mining for Social Media: Usage Patterns of Small Businesses

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  • Balan Shilpa

    (California State University-Los Angeles, College of Business and Economics, Los Angeles, USA)

  • Rege Janhavi

    (California State University-Los Angeles, College of Business and Economics, Los Angeles, USA)

Abstract

Background: Information can now be rapidly exchanged due to social media. Due to its openness, Twitter has generated massive amounts of data. In this paper, we apply data mining and analytics to extract the usage patterns of social media by small businesses. Objectives: The aim of this paper is to describe with an example how data mining can be applied to social media. This paper further examines the impact of social media on small businesses. The Twitter posts related to small businesses are analyzed in detail. Methods/Approach: The patterns of social media usage by small businesses are observed using IBM Watson Analytics. In this paper, we particularly analyze tweets on Twitter for the hashtag #smallbusiness. Results: It is found that the number of females posting topics related to small business on Twitter is greater than the number of males. It is also found that the number of negative posts in Twitter is relatively low. Conclusions: Small firms are beginning to understand the importance of social media to realize their business goals. For future research, further analysis can be performed on the date and time the tweets were posted.

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  • Balan Shilpa & Rege Janhavi, 2017. "Mining for Social Media: Usage Patterns of Small Businesses," Business Systems Research, Sciendo, vol. 8(1), pages 43-50, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:bit:bsrysr:v:8:y:2017:i:1:p:43-50:n:4
    DOI: 10.1515/bsrj-2017-0004
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