Tweet Much to Gain Popularity Is An Inefficient Strategy (IMAGE)

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Tweet Much to Gain Popularity Is An Inefficient Strategy

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This is a visualization of the spreading of messages on Twitter (retweets network in green) on the followers network (grey). The nodes represent users and their size is proportional to the number of followers that they have. Red indicates users who have written original tweets and yellow indicates users who have retweeted them.

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Image adapted by A.J. Morales, R.M. Benito et al.-<i>Social Networks</i>

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