Competing for Attention in Social Media under Information Overload Conditions.

Modern social media are becoming overloaded with information because of the rapidly-expanding number of information feeds. We analyze the user-generated content in Sina Weibo, and find evidence that the spread of popular messages often follow a mechanism that differs from the spread of disease, in c...

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Main Authors: Ling Feng, Yanqing Hu, Baowen Li, H Eugene Stanley, Shlomo Havlin, Lidia A Braunstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4498816?pdf=render