# Prof. Sinan Aral & Dylan Walker's new method of measuring influence on social networks is featured

1 Faculty News August 15, 2012 ![](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_037230.gif?itok=NXjHTZkN)>

Excerpt from [The Vancouver Sun](http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Lady+Gaga+Facebook+Twitter+friend/7058578/story.html) -- "Lady Gaga may hold the record for Twitter followers – 28 million and counting – but that doesn’t make her social media’s top tastemaker, according to a groundbreaking study that turns everything we know about Internet contagion on its head."

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