A Bayesian approach for predicting the popularity of tweets

We predict the popularity of short messages called tweets created in the micro-blogging site known as Twitter. We measure the popularity of a tweet by the time-series path of its retweets, which is when people forward the tweet to others. We develop a probabilistic model for the evolution of the ret...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zaman, Tauhid, Fox, Emily B., Bradlow, Eric T.
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Mathematical Statistics 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111083