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argues that “social epidemics” are driven in large part by the actions of a tinyminority of special individuals, often called influentials, who are unusuallyinformed, persuasive, or well connected. Malcolm Gladwell在他的《引爆點》一書中指出,“社會流行潮”主要是由一少部分特殊個體的行為引領的.,這些人通常被稱為有影響力的人,他們博聞強識, 有說服力,并且有很好的人脈?! n those faroff days, it was taken for granted that the critics of major papers wouldwrite in detail and at length about the events they covered