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BuzzFeed Know the Secret?’, New York Magazine, 7 April 2013. - Watts D.J. et al., ‘Viral Marketing for the Real World’, Harvard
Business Review, 2007. For ease of reading, the shorthand ‘<’
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web?’, The Guardian Online, 3 October 2013. - Salmon F., ‘BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti Goes Long’, Fusion, 11
June 2014. - Martin T. et al., ‘Exploring Limits to Prediction in Complex Social
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bestsellers’, EPJ Data Science, 2018. - McMahon V., ‘#Neknominate girl’s shame: I’m sorry for drinking
a goldfish’, Irish Mirror, 5 February 2014. - Many Neknomination videos can be seen on YouTube; Fricker
M., ‘RSPCA hunt yob who downed NekNomination cocktail
containing cider, eggs, battery fluid, urine and THREE goldfish’,
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11 February 2014; ‘“Neknomination”: Facebook ignores calls for
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Online, 22 February 2014.
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