• DOI:10.1145/2566486.2567997
Corpus ID: 14910205

Can cascades be predicted?

@inproceedings{Cheng2014CanCB,
  title={Can cascades be predicted?},
  author={J. Cheng and Lada A. Adamic and P. A. Dow and J. Kleinberg and J. Leskovec},
  booktitle={WWW},
  year={2014}
}

J. Cheng, Lada A. Adamic, +2 authors J. Leskovec

Published in WWW 2014

Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics

On many social networking web sites such as Facebook and Twitter, resharing or reposting functionality allows users to share others' content with their own friends or followers. As content is reshared from user to user, large cascades of reshares can form. While a growing body of research has focused on analyzing and characterizing such cascades, a recent, parallel line of work has argued that the future trajectory of a cascade may be inherently unpredictable. In this work, we develop a… CONTINUE READING

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