Rumor Diffusion and Convergence during the 3.11 Earthquake: A Twitter Case Study

• Misako Takayasu ,

  * E-mail: takayasu@dis.titech.ac.jp (MT); sano@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (YS)

  Affiliation Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Kazuya Sato,

  Affiliation Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Yukie Sano ,

  * E-mail: takayasu@dis.titech.ac.jp (MT); sano@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (YS)

  Affiliations College of Science and Technology, Nihon University, Funabashi, Chiba, Japan, Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Kenta Yamada,

  Affiliations Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan

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• Wataru Miura,

  Affiliation Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

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• Hideki Takayasu

  Affiliations Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan, Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

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