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We applied a biographical approach to correctly identify the academic status (professor versus PhD student). We calculated a 2 x 2 MANOVA on the influence of the activity of the account and the academic status (on different groups of followers) to differentiate the influence of the information motive versus the motive for community development.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Results suggest that for computer scientists Twitter is mainly an information network. However, we found significant effects in the sense of career planning, that is, the accounts of professors had even in the case of low activity a relatively high number of researcher followers - both PhD followers as well as professor followers. 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