eprintid: 2550
rev_number: 15
eprint_status: archive
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datestamp: 2015-02-02 10:18:27
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status_changed: 2015-02-02 10:18:27
type: monograph
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Bessi, Alessandro
creators_name: Zollo, Fabiana
creators_name: Del Vicario, Michela
creators_name: Scala, Antonio
creators_name: Petroni, Fabio
creators_name: Gonçalves, Bruno
creators_name: Quattrociocchi, Walter
creators_id: 
creators_id: fabiana.zollo@imtlucca.it
creators_id: michela.delvicario@imtlucca.it
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creators_id: 
creators_id: 
creators_id: walter.quattrociocchi@imtlucca.it
title: Everyday the same picture: popularity and content diversity
ispublished: submitted
subjects: HA
subjects: HM
subjects: QA75
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: working_paper
keywords: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an); Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
abstract: 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.
date: 2015-01
number: 7
publisher: ArXiv
institution: IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
official_url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.07201
projects: EU FET project MULTIPLEX Nr. 317532
citation:   Bessi, Alessandro and Zollo, Fabiana and Del Vicario, Michela and Scala, Antonio and Petroni, Fabio and Gonçalves, Bruno and Quattrociocchi, Walter  Everyday the same picture: popularity and content diversity.  Working Paper  #7/2015    ArXiv       (Submitted)   
document_url: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2550/1/arxiv.pdf