Game theory explains why some content goes viral on Reddit, Digg

arstechnica.com — Two game theorists have shown in a recent paper that it may not only be exposure that begets popularity. Social influences in a network can boost new innovations up, as well as slow them down, depending on the network's structure. Nov 7, 2010 View in Crawl 4

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Game theory explains why some content goes viral on Reddit, Digg

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FirstMackerel Nov 7, 2010

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This is why VHS beat Beta.

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hipman Nov 8, 2010

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Which is?....

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pyronavi Nov 9, 2010

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I assumed that was sarcasm, but it was still bothering me that you might not know. So, here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betamax

xathish1 Nov 8, 2010

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Testing

Closed Account Nov 8, 2010

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also this article tries to be viral, right ?

hipman Nov 8, 2010

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Wow talk about saying nothing in so many words.Um, people use things because they're popular?.Thanks for the insight.

forbjok Nov 8, 2010

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This article has been dugg at least 100 times, but NOT over 9000...

DaveM Nov 8, 2010

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Choad fail.

elitematch Nov 8, 2010

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It would be very interesting if someone would take a very popular dig article and submit it to all the other social bookmarking sites to see if it would get the same response. In theory it should but in reality only this test will tell.