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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-020-15-2068</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">23907</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
        </subj-group>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>E.2 - DATA STORAGE REPRESENTATIONS</subject>
          <subject>M.1 - KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING METHODOLOGIES</subject>
          <subject>M.6 - KNOWLEDGE PUBLISHING</subject>
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        <article-title>Does a Change in Weekend Days Have an Impact on Social Networking Activity?</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Shahzad</surname>
            <given-names>Basit</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">basit.shahzad@gmail.com</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Alwagait</surname>
            <given-names>Esam</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia</addr-line>
        <institution>King Saud University</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Riyadh</addr-line>
        <country>Saudi Arabia</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Basit Shahzad (<email xlink:type="simple">basit.shahzad@gmail.com</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2014</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>28</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2014</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>20</volume>
      <issue>15</issue>
      <fpage>2068</fpage>
      <lpage>2079</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/B94B9A4E-8EF4-5301-86CC-928FBED4617C">B94B9A4E-8EF4-5301-86CC-928FBED4617C</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/5506075">5506075</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>15</day>
          <month>01</month>
          <year>2014</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>30</day>
          <month>09</month>
          <year>2014</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Basit Shahzad, Esam Alwagait</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Twitter has gained phenomenal popularity over time, especially in Saudi Arabia, where it enjoys unmatched usage and is considered highly attractive. Tweets are now an important source of trend-setting and marketing along with their conventional use for information exchange. Recently, Saudi Arabia changed its working days so that weekends are Friday and Saturday instead of Thursday and Friday. To identify the impact of such a change on the usage of social networks, five detailed experiments are conducted. Time-stamped data for selected individuals are retrieved from Twitter and analyzed accordingly to observe usage behavior. Moreover, the results of these experiments are compared with results obtained last year, before the weekend was changed.</p>
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