Modeling users' activity on twitter networks: validation of Dunbar's number.

Microblogging and mobile devices appear to augment human social capabilities, which raises the question whether they remove cognitive or biological constraints on human communication. In this paper we analyze a dataset of Twitter conversations collected across six months involving 1.7 million indivi...

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Main Authors: Bruno Gonçalves, Nicola Perra, Alessandro Vespignani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3149601?pdf=render