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Synchronicity
Is Twitter a self organized network?
Definition: Synchronicity
Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events that are
causally unrelated occurring together in a meaningful
manner.(Wikipedia)
Event: Follow/Unfollow on Twitter
XABUserA follows UserX
UserB follows UserX
Event: Follow/Unfollow on Twitter
XABUserA follows UserX
UserB follows UserX
Synchron?
Study Objectives
Is there a synchronicity of follow/unfollow events?
If so...How frequently are they?
Who is causing event? UserA or UserB or equal.
Is Follow/Unfollow of UserX predictable?
Termination
Reason for follow/unfollow seen as blackbox
Observation based on subset of all users on Twitter
Observation based on new events only
What's next?
Chapter II
Digression on Agent Systems
Chapter III
Measurement Conditions
Thank you...
Thorsten Zoerner
[email protected]://twitter.com/zoernert
Chapter I: Synchronicity Twitter as a social Network
2010 by Thorsten Zoerner
