Hot-topics cross-propagation and opinion-transfer dynamics in the Chinese Sina-microblog social media: A modeling study.

On social media platforms, hot topics often contain several pieces of related information that can influence internet users, generating either positive or negative opinion orientation. Some of them will choose to retain or change their original opinions after exposure to multiple related messages. To describe the opinion-transfer transient and collective behaviors in this scenario, this paper proposes an opinion-transfer susceptible-forwarding-immunized (OT-SFI) information cross-propagation model.