Modeling Users' Activity on Twitter Networks: Validation of Dunbar's Number

Bruno Gonçalves; Nicola Perra; Alessandro Vespignani

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022656

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Modeling Users' Activity on Twitter Networks: Validation of Dunbar's Number

Bruno Gonçalves,

Affiliations School of Informatics and Computing, Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America, Pervasive Technology Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America
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Nicola Perra ,

* E-mail: nicolaperra@gmail.com

Affiliations School of Informatics and Computing, Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America, Complex Systems Computational Lab, Linkalab, Cagliari, Italy
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Alessandro Vespignani

Affiliations School of Informatics and Computing, Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America, Pervasive Technology Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America, Institute for Scientific Interchange, Turin, Italy
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Modeling Users' Activity on Twitter Networks: Validation of Dunbar's Number

Bruno Gonçalves,
Nicola Perra,
Alessandro Vespignani

Published: August 3, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022656

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