Cool study. Ant hills don't have influencers. They are still able to run billion individual colonies. The more connected we get the more we resemble an ant hill imho in terms of info dispersion.
Feels like its also why news/journalist hubs aren't required as they once were. Other than for attention mining which seems like a unsustainable temporary glitch in the system.
It'd be silly to assume that influencers are a necessary requirement for information to spread in a network, just because that's how it's worked a lot of the time in our society.
Feels like its also why news/journalist hubs aren't required as they once were. Other than for attention mining which seems like a unsustainable temporary glitch in the system.