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Monday, February 07, 2011

Twits Like Us


The Virtual Twitterverse That Can Forecast The Real Thing

Researchers have built a synthetic network that can recreate the behaviour of Twitterverse
KFC 02/07/2011

May I modestly suggest that there is no need to go to all this computational trouble in order to get an accurate model of the so called Twitterverse. All one needs do is simply study the excellent representations of the goings on of Twits on the old Monty Python television broadcasts. Of course, one must take care so as not to conflate the behavior of said Twits with one's own research methodology. That might bias the results somewhat...

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