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vinc ◴[] No.40727212[source]
A long time ago I wrote an engine for a newspaper that was helping journalists discover what was happening on social media. I was counting the number of times an URL was posted on Twitter and Facebook. I started with velocity and acceleration, but after I while I discovered that I could go one level higher and use jerk to understand when an URL was shared by an influencer.

I have a hard time imagining another level above that.

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1. kevindamm ◴[] No.40727451[source]
DDoS attacks, high inflection from a lot of disparate sources.