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Microblogging in open source software development:the case of Drupal using Twitter

2013 · 2 citations · 17 references

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This work investigates how Drupal’s open source community uses Twitter, a household-name in microblogging, and reveals that both serve as communicators of essential links to a vast and growing community knowledge base.

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