Celebrity Crises on Twitter

• Main Authors: Bruns, Axel, Highfield, Tim, Vimieiro, Ana, Vimieiro, Renato, Sauter, Theresa, Puschmann, Cornelius
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Association of Internet Researchers 2013
• Subjects: Bruns; Burgess; Crawford; Marwick; Reykjavík
• Online Access: https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/spir/article/view/8492

Recently, Twitter has strongly promoted its service as a means of following the day-to-day activities of celebrities in media, sports, and politics, and perhaps of tweeting about and even receiving the occasional reply from such accounts. Indeed, celebrity accounts are amongst the most-followed acco...