[HN Gopher] Twitter and the spread of academic knowledge
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       Twitter and the spread of academic knowledge
        
       Author : nickwritesit
       Score  : 53 points
       Date   : 2024-06-21 14:44 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | th0ma5 wrote:
       | As people move to other platforms it feels like the signal could
       | change and people may have more control over their feed but less
       | serendipity?
        
       | walterbell wrote:
       | Twitter consists of micro-communities, which should be factored
       | into any attempts at statistical analysis. Some of those
       | communities have migrated to Mastodon, where the presence of
       | multiple servers provides additional signal for micro-community
       | and cluster identification. In addition, Twitter(s) circa <year>
       | are different datasets due to both platform policy and evolving
       | membership.
        
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