[PDF][PDF] Why rumors spread so quickly in social networks
B Doerr, M Fouz, T Friedrich - Communications of the ACM, 2012 - dl.acm.org
B Doerr, M Fouz, T Friedrich
Communications of the ACM, 2012•dl.acm.orgWhy rumors spread so quickly in social networks Page 1 70 communications of the acm | june
2012 | vol. 55 | no. 6 Understanding strUctUral and algorithmic properties of complex networks is
important, due in part to the Internet’s global social and commercial importance. Our focus here
is to analyze how news spreads in social networks, simulating a simple information-spreading
process in various network topologies and demonstrating that news spreads much more
quickly in existing social-network topologies than in other network topologies. We support …
2012 | vol. 55 | no. 6 Understanding strUctUral and algorithmic properties of complex networks is
important, due in part to the Internet’s global social and commercial importance. Our focus here
is to analyze how news spreads in social networks, simulating a simple information-spreading
process in various network topologies and demonstrating that news spreads much more
quickly in existing social-network topologies than in other network topologies. We support …
A few hubs with many connections share with many individuals with few connections.
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