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Understanding human reposting patterns on Sina Weibo from a global perspective

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  • Yao, Weiyi
  • Jiao, Pengfei
  • Wang, Wenjun
  • Sun, Yueheng

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Quantitative analysis of human reposting patterns on social networking sites will provide helpful insights into the tracking and management of information spreading and social contagion. A large amount of efforts have been made on mining and explaining the patterns recently. However, existing researches mainly focused on specific events, topics or individuals. A more macroscopic angle is required for understanding the reposting characteristics on SNSs. In this paper, we explore the human reposting patterns from a global perspective by analyzing the large-scale reposting networks, which are constructed by about 1.5 billion reposting records collected from Sina Weibo over 15 months. Experiments indicate that the times of being reposted obey power law decays, and the frequency of reposting between two users follows a distribution of exponentially truncated power law. Meanwhile, taking user categories and micro-blog contents into account, we classify users into three categories and find that different users have distinct habits when reposting micro-blogs, e.g. common individuals would like to repost micro-blogs about entertainments, good qualities and sharing life styles.

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  • Yao, Weiyi & Jiao, Pengfei & Wang, Wenjun & Sun, Yueheng, 2019. "Understanding human reposting patterns on Sina Weibo from a global perspective," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 518(C), pages 374-383.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:518:y:2019:i:c:p:374-383
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2018.11.043
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