Pith Number

pith:CTTVJ6IW

pith:2018:CTTVJ6IWSXYP4WMB6RUEXIXRQZ

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The Follower Count Fallacy: Detecting Twitter Users with Manipulated Follower Count

Anupama Aggarwal, Kushagra Bhargava, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Saravana Kumar

arxiv:1802.03625 v1 · 2018-02-10 · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CTTVJ6IWSXYP4WMB6RUEXIXRQZ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:23:50.913211Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

14e754f91695f0fe5981f4684ba2f186530d5b749c4b87e9d96de0bca9254468

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.03625 · arxiv_version: 1802.03625v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.03625 · pith_short_12: CTTVJ6IWSXYP · pith_short_16: CTTVJ6IWSXYP4WMB · pith_short_8: CTTVJ6IW

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CTTVJ6IWSXYP4WMB6RUEXIXRQZ \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 14e754f91695f0fe5981f4684ba2f186530d5b749c4b87e9d96de0bca9254468

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dc1ed77dc66ac5b7086ab3c2140ed9475b477e4883386cb53c5aa47396c314ff",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-10T17:48:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "76667129862eca4e87adb66d7a1e0eece89f6438cefdae9abf4826c762dabd3f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.03625",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}