However, it is still unclear about the attention dynamics of the vast majority of topics and stories that never reach the critical mass. As such, it has remained an open question about the attention dynamics and the initial growth of these items. We attempt to propose dynamics of the user attention, measured in the number of user comments, for these general items on social media websites.

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Bruno Gonçalves originally shared this post:

From User Comments to On-line Conversations. (arXiv:1204.0128v1 [cs.CY])

We present an analysis of user conversations in on-line social media and
their evolution over time. We propose a dynamic model that accurately predicts
the growth dynamics and structural properties of conversation threads. The
model successfully reconciles the differing observations that have been
reported in existing studies. By separating artificial factors from user
behaviors, we show that there are actually underlying rules in common for
on-line conversations in different social media web…