Social media-transmitted online information, which is associated with emotional expressions, shapes our thoughts and actions. In this study, we incorporate social network theories and analyses and use a computational approach to investigate how emotional expressions, particularly negative...

To show the cross-market evidence on how social referral helps business growth, we analyze a full set of the actively used instant mobile apps (46,929 in total) embedded in one of the world’s largest social networking sites, WeChat. The WeChat platform provides on average over 350 million...