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: 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
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