Infectivity enhances prediction of viral cascades in Twitter.

Models of contagion dynamics, originally developed for infectious diseases, have proven relevant to the study of information, news, and political opinions in online social systems. Modelling diffusion processes and predicting viral information cascades are important problems in network science. Yet,...

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Main Authors: Weihua Li, Skyler J Cranmer, Zhiming Zheng, Peter J Mucha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214453