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The Role of Information Diffusion in the Evolution of Social Networks
Lilian Weng, Jacob Ratkiewicz, Nicola Perra +6
Every day millions of users are connected through online social networks, generating a rich trove of data that allows us to study the mechanisms behind human interactions. Triadic…
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…
Characterizing and modeling the dynamics of online popularity
Jacob Ratkiewicz, Filippo Menczer, Santo Fortunato +2
Online popularity has enormous impact on opinions, culture, policy, and profits. We provide a quantitative, large scale, temporal analysis of the dynamics of online content popular…