Journalists Trends towards the Opinion Leaders' Tweets on Twitter Field Study on Sample of Journalists at the Gulf Digital Journalism

DOI: 10.46988/IJMMC.01.01.2019.006

Abstract

The media has emerged as an important means of socialization conducive to rendering the dire need for opinion leaders from different cultures in diversified fields. Their tweets via Twitter represent a source of news and information. This study is descriptive. According to the statistics, 98.4% of the journalists working in the Gulf digital newspapers follow the social media websites incessantly. The most dominant social networking sites considered by the subjects as the source of electronic newspapers' content is Twitter, by 80.3%. (23.8%) is the percentage of those who trust the opinion leaders, but those who trustless, and neutrals are 32.8% to the effect that the indicator is those who do not trust the opinion leaders' tweets are 55.8%. The subjects follow the leaders of opinion via Twitter to get the news, and by 60.7%. The subjects view the opinion leaders' tweets as a source of information that strengthens the electronic press's credibility and was represented by 68.8%. The researcher found that 73.3% of the subjects agreed that the tweets contained topics worthy of pursuing.