Estimating Contagion Rates in Kickstarter Twitter Cliques
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چکیده
In recent years, crowdfunding has emerged as a popular communitybased, micro-financing model for entrepreneurs, artists, and activists alike to bring their respective dreams into fruition. Successful campaigns, those which meet their financial goals, bring with them not only the financial utility for the creator, but also social utility for the backers. As such, much attention has been paid in recent years to predicting which campaigns will have the greatest likelihood of success. Rooted in this historical research, this project adapts the model of social media exposure curves of hashtags by Romero, Meeder and Kleinberg [11] to understand contagion spread in Kickstarter crowdfunding campaigns through its twitter network.
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