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The purpose of study was to examine the effect of the use of the program of Twitter as one of the social networking sites on the identity crisis among the students of the preparatory year at the University of Dammam. The sample were (544) students the descriptive method was followed. An identity crisis scale developed by the researcher was implemented after calculating its psychometric terms of validity and reliability. The results of study indicated significant effect of the gender factor (male, female) on the total score of identity crisis and its dimensions, with the exception of the identity of alienation, self-identity and identity of achievement. The three-level track factor (health, engineering, and scientific) was also found to have a significant impact on the total score of identity crisis and its dimensions, with the exception of the identity of alienation, self-identity and identity of achievement. The results also showed that there is a significant impact of the interaction between track and gender factors on total score of identity crisis and its dimensions, with the exception of adhesion. Finally, the identity crisis and its dimensions were predicted through the number of years of use and the number of daily hours of social networking (Twitter). (Published abstract)