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Theresa Klein's avatar

If a new mode were to follow these patterns, it would appear in the next century, after a transition of ten years or less, and have a doubling time of about a month, a main cycle of about a week, and a typical group size of a trillion.

The Twitter News Cycle in a nutshell.

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Ben Sima's avatar

Related book: _1000 Years of Nonlinear History_ by Manuel DeLanda. I'm about 1/2 finished with it, and plan to write a review when I'm done (in a few weeks, currently distracted with work-related stuff).

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