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https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/facseminars/events/marketing/documents/mktg_03_0... (Duncan Watts)
http://cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/pubs/lim-icdm10.pdf (Jaewon Yang and Jure Lescovec) - links are studies on online influence.
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