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We observe the statistical properties of blogs that are expected to reflect social human interaction. Firstly, we introduce a basic normalization preprocess that enables us to evaluate the genuine word frequency in blogs that are independent of external factors such as spam blogs, server-breakdowns, increase in the population of bloggers, and periodic weekly behaviors. After this process, we can confirm that small frequency words clearly follow an independent Poisson process as theoretically expected. Secondly, we focus on each blogger’s basic behaviors. It is found that there are two kinds of behaviors of bloggers. Further, Zipf’s law on word frequency is confirmed to be universally independent of individual activity types.
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Sano, Y., Takayasu, M. Macroscopic and microscopic statistical properties observed in blog entries. J Econ Interact Coord 5, 221–230 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11403-010-0065-7
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