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Daniel Romero

Daniel M. Romero is a Ph.D candidate at Cornell University in the Center for Applied Mathematics. His main research interest is the theoretical and empirical study of information and social networks. He has conducted research related to the formation of Twitter's follower network, the identification of influential social media sources, and the formation and spread of grassroots political parties among others topics.

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• Twitter: A key player in the 2011 World Wide Web conference

  The 2011 World Wide Web conference took place in Hyderabad, India from March 28th through April 1st. More than 800 researchers from around the world gathered to learn about the latest research related to the Web. The most important part of the conference was the research papers, 90 of them were presented in the last three days.Twitter data played a major role in many of the research papers. To get an idea, four out of the 81 ...

• Buying celebrities on Twitter: Great strategy or a waste of money?

  The advent of social media and online social networks has drastically changed the way we communicate. Not only are we able to consume information about any topic from anywhere in the world, but now anyone with any idea or message can make their message go viral across the world.But if it’s really true that anyone can reach thousands of people, how does one achieve this goal? Popular logic dictates that the answer is simple: Get enough people to follow ...