Are follow and unfollow decissions on Twitter in sync? Chapter I: Outline of this study

1. Synchronicity Is Twitter a self organized network?

2. Definition: Synchronicity Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events that are causally unrelated occurring together in a meaningful manner. ( Wikipedia )

3. Event: Follow/Unfollow on Twitter X A B UserA follows UserX UserB follows UserX

4. Event: Follow/Unfollow on Twitter X A B UserA follows UserX UserB follows UserX Synchron?

7. Who is causing event? UserA or UserB or equal.

10. Observation based on subset of all users on Twitter

11. Observation based on new events only

14. Thank you... Thorsten Zoerner [email_address] http://twitter.com/zoernert