Not that you could study it easily without violating a whole lot of privacy concerns (not to mention never getting past an IRB) but I will bet you dollars to donuts a researcher embedded in Twitter has a pretty workable model for radicalizing folks based upon traffic shaping.

For those who don’t know it, the story behind it is moving as well: www.thedallasway.org/stories/writ...

He slept for 12 hours straight, longest he's slept since his owner died, I think he feels safe.