How far does a tweet travel?: Information brokers in the twitterverse

Authors:
Diederik van Liere
Affiliations:
University of Toronto
Venue:
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Modeling Social Media
Year:
2010

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Abstract

In this paper, I present evidence on the geographic diffusion patterns of information of Twitter users. I identify three possible information diffusion patterns: random, local and information brokerage and show that the information brokerage pattern describes best how users of Twitter diffuse information through the act of retweeting.