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Detecting and Tracking the Spread of Astroturf Memes in Microblog Streams
Jacob Ratkiewicz, Michael Conover, Mark Meiss +4
Online social media are complementing and in some cases replacing person-to-person social interaction and redefining the diffusion of information. In particular, microblogs have be…
Agents, Bookmarks and Clicks: A topical model of Web traffic
Mark Meiss, Bruno Gonçalves, José J. Ramasco +2
Analysis of aggregate and individual Web traffic has shown that PageRank is a poor model of how people navigate the Web. Using the empirical traffic patterns generated by a thousan…
What's in a Session: Tracking Individual Behavior on the Web
Mark Meiss, John Duncan, Bruno Gonçalves +2
We examine the properties of all HTTP requests generated by a thousand undergraduates over a span of two months. Preserving user identity in the data set allows us to discover nove…