科学60秒:人气王主导网络论坛
Researcher Itai Himelboim gathered eight million messages posted to 35 political and philosophical newsgroups—like —over a six-year period. And he analyzed the connections among the messages. Turns out that 50 percent of all replies were ___3___ just 2 percent of people who started threads, and who thus came to control the discussion. And the larger the newsgroup, the more ___4___ this effect became.
But these newsgroup dominators weren't posting much original content. Sixty percent of their posts were just content ___5___ traditional news sources like the New York Times. Which is good news for the news business, the author says. Because it means people still want someone else to search out information and deliver it. After all, isn't that one reason why you listen to this podcast?
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