Twitter Communication is Scale Free

by erich on July 7, 2009

Creating a network from a sample of communications from approximately 900,000 people on Twitter, the distribution of distinct communication partners result fits the definition of a scale-free network.  The power is a little higher than scale-free networks usually described for social networks (2<k<3), but not much.

histogramOfPartners

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • del.icio.us
  • Digg
  • Technorati
  • email
  • FriendFeed

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