Journal articleAuthors : Theo, Lynn (2020)
Together, social media and crowdsourcing can help entrepreneurs to attract external
finance and early-stage customers. This paper investigates the characteristics and discourse of an
issue-centered public on Twitter organized around the hashtag #crowdfunding through the lens of
social network theory. Using a dataset of 2,732,144 tweets published during a calendar year, we use
exploratory data analysis to generate insights and hypotheses on who the...