[davex32]

> Nice piece of work. The role of influencers in this study is akin to that of hubs in scale-free network. Diffusion on scale-free and small-world network have been studied extensively in physics community. It will be interesting to compare the results from this paper with work on scale-free networks.

Also, context is everything. A social graph is not a flat structure. This work, for instance, https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.03826, shows that how consensus is formed and spreads across an agent population depends heavily on how different network types overlap.

I also remembered this work on how rare scale-free networks are rare in the wild: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.03400