Twitter event networks and the Superstar model

Condensation phenomenon is often observed in social networks such as Twitter where one “superstar” vertex gains a positive fraction of the edges, while the remaining empirical degree distribution still exhibits a power law tail. We formulate a mathematically tractable model for this phenomenon that...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bhamidi, Shankar, Steele, J. Michael, Zaman, Tauhid R
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Mathematical Statistics 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109426
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4973-9343