Get a Word in Edgewise: Post Character Limit and Social Media-Based Customer Service
Get a Word in Edgewise: Post Character Limit and Social Media-Based Customer Service
dc.contributor.author | Al Balawi, Ramah | |
dc.contributor.author | Hu, Yuheng | |
dc.contributor.author | Qiu, Liangfei | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-12-27T19:19:18Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-12-27T19:19:18Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-01-03 | |
dc.description.abstract | In this paper, we study the role of extending character limits on firm responses on social media. By leveraging a natural experiment setting: the unexpected increase in post character limit on Twitter, we empirically investigate the impact on the linguistic styles of social media-based customer service responses. Using a Regression Discontinuity in Time Design and leveraging a panel dataset, our results suggest that extending character limits influences firm to change the linguistic styles in their responses which could influence consumers' perceptions. Our results show that extending post-character limits significantly reduces the readability ease of firm responses, on average, while increasing the concreteness and personal closeness scores of these responses, on average. We show that these changes were effective in influencing customer satisfaction. | |
dc.format.extent | 10 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.24251/HICSS.2023.700 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-0-9981331-6-4 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10125/103334 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Proceedings of the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | Digital Transformations of Business Operations | |
dc.subject | customer service | |
dc.subject | linguistic styles | |
dc.subject | post character limits | |
dc.subject | social media | |
dc.title | Get a Word in Edgewise: Post Character Limit and Social Media-Based Customer Service | |
dc.type.dcmi | text | |
prism.startingpage | 5761 |
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