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The success of an on-line movement could be defined in terms of the shift to large-scale and the later off-line massive street actions of protests. The role of social media in this process is to facilitate the transformation from small or local feelings of disagreement into large-scale social actions. The way how social media achieves that effect is by growing clusters of people and groups with similar effervescent feelings, which in another case would never be in communication. It is natural to think that these kinds of macro social actions, as a consequence of the spontaneous and massive interactions, will attain the growth and divergence of the correlation length, giving rise to important simplifications on several statistics. In this work, we report the presence of signs of criticality in social demonstrations. Namely, the same power-law exponents are found whenever the distributions are calculated, either considering the same windows-time or the same number of hashtags. The exponents for the distributions during the event were found to be smaller than before (and after) the event. The latter also happens whenever the hashtags are counted only once per user or if all their usag

Author

Beiró, Mariano G.; Chung, Ning Ning; Chew, Lock Yue; Gandica, Yérali

Published

2023

Language

EN