Modeling Comments on Blog Posts

13 Pages Posted: 24 Oct 2015

Date Written: October 9, 2015

Abstract

In this paper we use Gibrat's law and a preferential attachment algorithm to model the long- and heavy-tailed distribution of comments that appear on blog posts, in which some posts attract a very large number of comments but most comments attract only a few.

Keywords: blog, social network, Gibrat's law, preferential attachment, power law

Suggested Citation

McClure, Scott, Modeling Comments on Blog Posts (October 9, 2015). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2678891 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2678891

Scott McClure (Contact Author)

Nuance Communications, Inc. ( email )

1 Wayside Road
Burlington, MA 01803
United States

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