Twitter Usage Habits of Undergraduate Students

Twitter has a potential to be used as a professional and social networking since individuals who have similar interests can meet on Twitter. Twitter is a multiplatform Web 2.0, part social networking - part microblogging tool, freely accessibly on the Web. The aim of this study was to investigate the usage habits of undergraduate students on Twitter. The study was conducted on ninety three volunteered undergraduate students. The data obtained by the survey was analyzed and commented upon using the SPSS program with the percentage, frequency, and mean statistical analysis techniques. As the results show, majority of the participants, spent most of their time on Twitter. Quotes, photos, videos, music, news, IT news and magazine news are the most commonly shared items on Twitter. However, educational materials were observed to be least frequently shared by the students. From this premise, we argue that investigating the most preferred usage habits of students on Twitter is an important and hot topic research. We believe that in future days more research will be focused on usage of Twitter in education due to its characteristics and student's interest in this social network. Therefore, this study could be considered as an important preliminary study in this field.