The use of Twitter by female Saudi university students and its relationship to social capital : A survey study on a sample of female students from King Saud University and King Abdulaziz University

This study aimed to study Twitter website; as the most used social networking site in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the relationship of this use to social capital, and the resulting consolidation of existing relationships in reality, and the establishment of new relationships, and its relationship to trust in social relationships, self-esteem, and social communication skills. The study used the survey method, and it was applied to a sample of Saudi university students; In order to identify their uses of Twitter, and its relationship to achieving interconnectivity and communicative social capital, and given the extension of the geographical scope of the study community, and the increase in time and effort, the researcher resorted to this sample, which included 400 female students at the undergraduate level, distributed over eight levels in each of: King Saud University in Riyadh, and King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah. The study reached a number of results, the most important of which are: that forms of social capital can be generated on Twitter; Where there is a simple direct statistically significant relationship between the intensity of female Saudi university students’ uses of Twitter, and the interconnectivity and communicative social capital, and there is a moderate, statistically significant positive relationship between the intensity of female students’ use of Twitter, with confidence in social relations, and social communication skills on social capital. The results also showed that there is a simple direct relationship with statistical significance between the intensity of the uses of Twitter by Saudi university students, and social capital with self-esteem. The results also showed that follow-up and reading are the most used by the sample members on Twitter, and that the highest percentage of social activities patterns that they practice through the site is the follow-up of social news, which amounted to 75.8%, and the study indicated that there are statistically significant differences in social capital in favor of the nature of the theoretical study, and the study also indicated that there are statistically significant differences in social capital among sample members in favor of those of their ages 23-25 ​​years, and there are no differences in the social capital of the sample members, according to the social and economic level of university students.