Title
On the Frequency Distribution of Retweets.
Abstract
Social media platforms allow rapid information diffusion, and serve as a source of information to many of the users. Particularly, in Twitter information provided by tweets diffuses over the users through retweets. So it is of great significance to study the char- acteristics of retweets for marketing and outbreak detection. In this paper, we present a hypothesis that the frequency distribution of retweets follows a power law distribution asymptotically by analyzing the retweets data. Then, we propose a method to model the mechanism of retweet under considering preferential attachment and transmissibility of tweets. We quantify the parameter and get a power law distribution, the simulation results and the results of data analysis are proved to be consistent, so the model can explain the behavior of retweets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.procs.2014.05.323
Procedia Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Twitter,Retweet,Power Law Distribution,Preferential Attachment,Transmissibility
Data mining,Social media,Pareto distribution,Computer science,Transmissibility (vibration),Preferential attachment
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
31
1877-0509
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.51
9
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yao Lu14223.11
Peng Zhang229525.63
Ya-nan Cao313119.42
Yue Hu490.89
Li Guo522416.28