Online activity grows in a similar pattern to those of real-life networks

Thursday, September 1, 2011 - 12:30 in Mathematics & Economics

The Internet has given rise to its own sorting devices. Among these, tagging consists of assigning user-chosen keywords to a piece of information (such as a digital image) to facilitate searches. Experts have now used the tagging behavior of social media application users to study the growth of online communities' activity.

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