Matt DeVerna @matthewdeverna.com · Oct 31 Through case studies on Twitter and Bluesky, we find that something as simple as identifying influential accounts is massively affected when using networks constructed from reconstructed versus naïve (platform-provided) cascades.
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If the reconstruction had no effect, the set of influential accounts in both networks would be identical. Instead, we find the overlap is only 10-35%! (Fig c and f below)