Gregory's Server“This mass exodus from Twitter represents one of the largest digital migrations in the history of the Social Web and a unique example of collective behavioral change that is documented through large-scale digital traces, that can thus be studied quantitatively and at scale.”
Tim Chambers
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Kyle Memoir
I had to read stuff like this when I did my soc undergrad degree decades ago. It’s as opaque and unreadable now as then. “We analyzed the social network and the public conversations of about 75,000 migrated users and observed that the temporal trace of their migrations is compatible with a phenomenon of social influence, as described by a compartmental epidemic model of information diffusion.”
nerdslayer
@f800gecko @tchambers @fediversenews perhaps if we ask nicely the authors can provide an infographic
CynAq 🤘
@f800gecko @tchambers @fediversenews I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought “wtf are these dipshits talking about”, and that you studied sociology and still think that, is a welcome bonus. It might be my bias but I feel like engineering papers are written in more plain language than this. 
dreamingawake09
@tchambers @fediversenews it's wild to see cause I vividly remember the exodus from Digg to Reddit and that felt big at the time too.
72mz
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@tchambers @fediversenews the *only* migrations in the history of... it has never happened before ant this kind of scale.
the fact that it has, given the dominant position of twitter, is remarkable.