• DocumentCode
    1699769
  • Title

    Social networks empowering citizens

  • Author

    El-Kadi, A. ; Abd-El-Hafiz, Salwa Kamal

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering American University in Cairo, Egypt
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    695
  • Lastpage
    695
  • Abstract
    Facebook (launched in Feb. 2004) and Twitter (launched in July 2006) are two popular social networks reported to have more than 900 million and 140 million active users, respectively. Both services have affected the social life and activity of people in various ways, yet no one could have imagined that they would affect the future of nations!
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 2012 IEEE 36th Annual
  • Conference_Location
    Izmir
  • ISSN
    0730-3157
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1990-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0730-3157
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CMPSAC.2012.6487434
  • Filename
    6487434