Does Quantum Interference exist in Twitter?

TL;DR

This paper investigates the limitations of classical information theories in explaining Twitter data transfer and provides evidence of quantum interference phenomena in social networks, proposing a new mathematical model.

Contribution

It demonstrates the failure of traditional models to explain Twitter information transfer and introduces the concept of quantum interference in social networks with a new mathematical framework.

Findings

Classical models fail to interpret Twitter information transfer

Quantum interference phenomena are observed in Twitter data

A new mathematical model explains the quantum effects in social networks

Abstract

It becomes more difficult to explain the social information transfer phenomena using the classic models based merely on Shannon Information Theory (SIT) and Classic Probability Theory (CPT), because the transfer process in the social world is rich of semantic and highly contextualized. This paper aims to use twitter data to explore whether the traditional models can interpret information transfer in social networks, and whether quantum-like phenomena can be spotted in social networks. Our main contributions are: (1) SIT and CPT fail to interpret the information transfer occurring in Twitter; and (2) Quantum interference exists in Twitter, and (3) a mathematical model is proposed to elucidate the spotted quantum phenomena.