@TorontoStar: Algorithm isolates ingredients of highly tweeted (and retweeted) news stories

From an article by Josh Rubin (@StarBeer):

A new research paper from UCLA and Hewlett Packard has created an algorithm to forecast the likelihood that a story – or tweet – will be shared (and reshared) via social media. Their model, they claim, works with 84 per cent accuracy.

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