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Modelling the Drift of Social Media Posts

  • Henryka Czyż,
  • Andrew Schumann,
  • Arkadiusz Gaweł

摘要

We have developed a theory that allows us to accurately characterize information waves in social networks such as Twitter. This theory is an extrapolation of a mathematical theory that studies particle drifts in the acoustic field. We have noticed that each post on Twitter can be considered as a particle, and its radius is the number of followers of the author of the post. Then the number of likes and retweets of this entry can be considered as a drift of this particle. We have found that our hypothesis is correct, and in this interpretation, Twitter posts behave like particles in the acoustic field. In particular, if the author of the entry has no more than 15,000 followers, then this behavior is characterized as a radiative drift in the acoustic field, and if more than 15,000, then as a viscous drift. Based on this behavior of particles (posts on Twitter), we can mathematically reconstruct an appropriate information wave.