Modeling users' activity on twitter networks: Validation of Dunbar's number

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Gonçalves, Bruno ^a,b   Perra, Nicola ^a,c   Vespignani, Alessandro ^a,b,d  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Linkalab   (Italy)

^d ISI FOUNDATION   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPUTER NETWORK; CONVERSATION; DUNBAR NUMBER; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN RELATION; MEASUREMENT; ONLINE SYSTEM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 84856312781     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022656     Document Type: Article

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