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
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