GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT This study examined how the accessibility to ICT and the use of twitter affects the academic performance of student. Two specific research objectives were formulated to guide the study. The research design was survey study design. The population of the study consisted of all senior secondary schools students using a stratified sampling technique. The instrument known as “Twitter and Academic Performance Inventory (TAPI)” was used to collect the data. The instrument was subjected to reliability test, using test-retest method and it produced high average reliability coefficient to justify the use of the instrument. The analysis was done using appropriate statistical techniques such as descriptive statistics t-test analysis and two-way analysis of variance. The findings revealed that students are so much indulged in the use of twitter as one of the social networks and there is significant influence of school location and use of twitter on the academic performance of students. One of the recommendations was that students should know that overuse of social network including twitter is detrimental to their studies and so should avoid it. Key words: Accessibility to ICT, Twitter, academic performance, Economics, students