Evidence of complex contagion of information in social media: An experiment using Twitter bots

Bjarke Mønsted; Piotr Sapieżyński; Emilio Ferrara; Sune Lehmann

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0184148

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Evidence of complex contagion of information in social media: An experiment using Twitter bots

Bjarke Mønsted ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Bjarke Mønsted, Piotr Sapieżyński, Emilio Ferrara, Sune Lehmann

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Technical University of Denmark, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3683-312X

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Piotr Sapieżyński ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Bjarke Mønsted, Piotr Sapieżyński, Emilio Ferrara, Sune Lehmann

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Technical University of Denmark, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
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Emilio Ferrara ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Bjarke Mønsted, Piotr Sapieżyński, Emilio Ferrara, Sune Lehmann

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA 90292, United States of America, Indiana University, Network Science Institute, Bloomington, IN, United States of America
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Sune Lehmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Bjarke Mønsted, Piotr Sapieżyński, Emilio Ferrara, Sune Lehmann

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: sljo@dtu.dk

Affiliation Technical University of Denmark, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
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Evidence of complex contagion of information in social media: An experiment using Twitter bots

Bjarke Mønsted,
Piotr Sapieżyński,
Emilio Ferrara,
Sune Lehmann

Published: September 22, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184148

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