Universality, criticality and complexity of information propagation in social media.

ABSTRACT: Statistical laws of information avalanches in social media appear, at least according to existing empirical studies, not robust across systems. As a consequence, radically different processes may represent plausible driving mechanisms for information propagation. Here, we analyze almost one billion time-stamped events collected from several online platforms - including Telegram, Twitter and Weibo - over observation windows longer than ten years, and show that the propagation of information in social media is a universal and critical process. Universality arises from the observation of identical macroscopic patterns across platforms, irrespective of the details of the specific system at hand. Critical behavior is deduced from the power-law distributions, and corresponding hyperscaling relat

SUBMITTER: Notarmuzi D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8921196 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature