The link to the article can be found here.
The article talks about a study that was done through researchers at West Point to see how many people it takes to make an influence in a social network. The results they found were less than 1% of the network population could “initiate a social cascade” in roughly three and half hours. They took they’re research from 31 different social networks, though the example they site is Friendster.
This is very important towards our meme work because it brings in data that confirm that the term patient zero does have real world input. Less than 1% of a network can spread my meme in meer hours after its inception. The question this article brings up is who is this less than 1%? And how do I get them to spread my meme? That’s what I’ll have to figure out.