Evidence of complex contagion of information in social media: An experiment using Twitter bots.

It has recently become possible to study the dynamics of information diffusion in techno-social systems at scale, due to the emergence of online platforms, such as Twitter, with millions of users. One question that systematically recurs is whether information spreads according to simple or complex d...

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Main Authors: Bjarke Mønsted, Piotr Sapieżyński, Emilio Ferrara, Sune Lehmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5609738?pdf=render