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In the age of Web 2.0, modeling and predicting the popularity of online information was an important issue in information dissemination. Online social medium greatly affects the way we communicate with each other. However, little is known about what fundamental mechanisms drive the dynamical information flow in online social systems. To address this problem, we develop a theoretical probabilistic model based on branching process to characterize the process in which micro-blog information gains its popularity. Firstly, the data of information popularity and network structure of micro-blog network are analyzed. The statistical results show that the attenuation of information popularity follows a scaling law whose exponent is 1.8, and in-degree and out-degree of micro-blog network each also obey a power law distribution whose exponent is 1.5. The results of power law distribution show that there is a high-degree heterogeneity in a micro-blog system. The proportion of micro-blog information with popularity less than 100 is 95.8%, while the amount of micro-blog information with popularity more than 10, 000 is very small. The number of fans (in-degree) less than 100 accounts for 56.4%, while some users have millions of fans.Secondly, according to the design mechanism of the Weibo system, we assume that each user has two lists, i.e. a "home page list" and a "personal page list". Meanwhile, each user has two states at each moment: generating a new message with probability
${\mu} $ to be sent out; 2) or forwarding the information already on the "personal page list" with probability$ (1-{\mu}) $ . Based on the assumptions, the information popularity model is proposed. Finally, the model is simulated. The simulation results show that the model can reproduce some features of real social network data, and the popularity of information is related to the network structure. By solving the model equation, the results of theoretical prediction are consistent with the simulation analyses and actual data.-
Keywords:
- statistical physics /
- branching process /
- complex network /
- information popularity
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图 1 流行度模型示意图
Figure 1. Schematic of the model.
图 2 微博的流行度分布
Figure 2. Distribution of micro-blogs popularity.
图 3 微博用户度分布
Figure 3. Distribution of out-degree and in-degree.
图 4 微博信息平均流行度
Figure 4. Mean popularity of Micro-blogs.
图 5 微博信息流行度的互补累积概率分布(CCDF)
Figure 5. Complementary cumulative distribution functions (CCDFs)—the fraction of micro-blogs with popularity
$ \geqslant n$ .表 1 一个时间步节点(用户)“微博首页”的结果
Table 1. Single time-step outcomes of user’s list.
列表S 概率 ${G_{jk}}\left( {t,\varOmega ;x} \right)$ (a)被新收到的信息所占据 $k\Delta t$ 1 (b)创造了一条新的信息 ${\mu} \Delta t$ 1 (c)以概率$1 - {\mu} $转发信息 $(1 - {\mu} )\Delta t$ $x{G_{jk}}\left( {t - \Delta t,\varOmega ;x} \right){\left[ {G\left( {t - \Delta t,\varOmega ;x} \right)} \right]^k}$ (d)保持原样 $1 - \left( {k + 1} \right)\Delta t$ ${G_{jk}}\left( {t - \Delta t,\varOmega ;x} \right)$ 
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[1] Wang D, Song C, Barabási A L 2013 Science 342 6154
[2] Sasahara K, Hirata Y, Toyoda M, Kitsuregawa M, Aihara K 2013 PloS one 8 e61823
Google Scholar
[3] Quattrociocchi W, Caldarelli G, Scala A 2014 Sci. Rep. 4 4938
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Google Scholar
[5] Song B, Jiang G P, Song Y R, Xia L L 2015 Chin. Phys. B 24 100101
Google Scholar
[6] Wang J R, Wang J P, He Zhen, Xu H T 2015 Chin. Phys. B 24 060101
Google Scholar
[7] 闵磊, 刘智, 唐向阳, 陈矛 2015 64 088901
Google Scholar
Min L, Liu Z, Tang X Y, Chen M, Liu S Y 2015 Acta Phys. Sin. 64 088901
Google Scholar
[8] 王金龙, 刘方爱, 朱振方 2015 64 050501
Google Scholar
Wang J L, Liu F A, Zhu Z F 2015 Acta Phys. Sin. 64 050501
Google Scholar
[9] 李勇军, 尹超, 于会, 刘尊 2016 65 020501
Google Scholar
Li Y J, Yin C, Yu H, Liu Z 2016 Acta Phys. Sin. 65 020501
Google Scholar
[10] Gleeson J P, O’sullivan K P, Banos R A, Moreno Y 2016 Phys. Rev. X 6 021019
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
Yang L, Song Y R, Li Y W 2018 Acta Phys. Sin. 67 190502
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[22] Miotto J M, Altmann E G 2014 PloS one 91 e111506
[23] Sinatra R, Wang D S, Deville P, Song C Y, Barabási A L 2016 Science 354 6312
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