Online social cohesion reflects real-world group action in Syria during the Arab Spring.

This is further supported by separate cross-correlation analyses between the social cohesion metric and original tweets and between cohesion and retweets (see Appendix A); in both analyses, relations between social cohesion and each of these metrics showed different patterns and did not reach statistical significance at lag 0 (i.e., simultaneity).

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