Birds of a schedule flock together: Social networks, peer influence, and digital activity cycles
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Highlights：
• The diurnal cycle is a strong temporal pattern on Twitter but individual variability also exists.
• Social media users are more similar to their followees than to their followers in terms of the daily rhythm.
• When the ego–followee divergence is large, users are less likely to have temporal fragmentation.
• When the followee–followee divergence is large, users are more likely to have severe temporal fragmentation.
• Peer influence is a major reason for the clustering effect observed in this study.
摘要
•The diurnal cycle is a strong temporal pattern on Twitter but individual variability also exists.•Social media users are more similar to their followees than to their followers in terms of the daily rhythm.•When the ego–followee divergence is large, users are less likely to have temporal fragmentation.•When the followee–followee divergence is large, users are more likely to have severe temporal fragmentation.•Peer influence is a major reason for the clustering effect observed in this study.
论文关键词：Social media,Social network,Peer influence,Homophily
论文评审过程：Received 2 October 2017, Revised 11 December 2017, Accepted 15 January 2018, Available online 16 January 2018, Version of Record 2 February 2018.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.01.016
