Metcalfe's law applied to social networks
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Metcalfe's law applied to social networks
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Description
Metcalfe's law states that the value of a (telecommunications) network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n2) [1]. Metcalfe's law has also been said to appy to (social) networking websites such as Wikipedia, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.
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References
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law
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