Branching process descriptions of information cascades on Twitter

DOI10.1093/COMNET/CNAB002zbMATH Open1473.90026arXiv2007.08916OpenAlexW3138696014MaRDI QIDQ4958804FDOQ4958804

Authors: James P. Gleeson, Tomokatsu Onaga, Peter G. Fennell, James Cotter, Raymond Burke, David J. P. O'Sullivan 

Publication date: 15 September 2021

Published in: Journal of Complex Networks (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A detailed analysis of Twitter-based information cascades is performed, and it is demonstrated that branching process hypotheses are approximately satisfied. Using a branching process framework, models of agent-to-agent transmission are compared to conclude that a limited attention model better reproduces the relevant characteristics of the data than the more common independent cascade model. Existing and new analytical results for branching processes are shown to match well to the important statistical characteristics of the empirical information cascades, thus demonstrating the power of branching process descriptions for understanding social information spreading.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.08916

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zbMATH Keywords

networksbranching processescascades

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Deterministic network models in operations research (90B10) Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)

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