The Mathematics of Going Viral on Social Media
Why can a short video appear in your feed, then in friends’ feeds and sometimes in the news within hours? We call this “going viral”, borrowing a word from biology even though online content is not a virus. This section uses numbers to explore rapid online spread while showing that popularity is not guaranteed or governed by one simple rule.
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