TY  - RPRT
ID  - eprints2550
AV  - public
TI  - Everyday the same picture: popularity and content diversity
KW  - Social and Information Networks (cs.SI); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Data Analysis
KW  -  Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an); Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
Y1  - 2015/01//
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.07201
A1  - Bessi, Alessandro
A1  - Zollo, Fabiana
A1  - Del Vicario, Michela
A1  - Scala, Antonio
A1  - Petroni, Fabio
A1  - Gonçalves, Bruno
A1  - Quattrociocchi, Walter
PB  - ArXiv
M1  - working_paper
N2  - Facebook is flooded by diverse and heterogeneous content, from kittens up to music and news, passing through satirical and funny stories. Each piece of that corpus reflects the heterogeneity of the underlying social background. In the Italian Facebook we have found an interesting case: a page having more than 40K followers that every day posts the same picture of Toto Cutugno, a popular Italian singer. In this work, we use such a page as a benchmark to study and model the effects of content heterogeneity on popularity. In particular, we use that page for a comparative analysis of information consumption patterns with respect to pages posting science and conspiracy news. In total, we analyze about 2M likes and 190K comments, made by approximately 340K and 65K users, respectively. We conclude the paper by introducing a model mimicking users selection preferences accounting for the heterogeneity of contents.
ER  -