Evidence of complex contagion of information in social media: An experiment using Twitter bots

The rise of social bots

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The DARPA Twitter Bot Challenge

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Measuring Emotional Contagion in Social Media

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Complex contagion process in spreading of online innovation

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Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks

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The Simple Rules of Social Contagion

(2014) Nathan O. Hodas et al.   Scientific Reports

Social Influence Bias: A Randomized Experiment

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Complex social contagion makes networks more vulnerable to disease outbreaks

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Virality Prediction and Community Structure in Social Networks

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A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization

(2012) Robert M. Bond et al.   NATURE

Structural diversity in social contagion

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Spontaneous emergence of social influence in online systems

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The Spread of Behavior in an Online Social Network Experiment

(2010) D. Centola   SCIENCE

Distinguishing influence-based contagion from homophily-driven diffusion in dynamic networks

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Statistical physics of social dynamics

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