# Network Topology Network topology is the pattern of relationships through which information, authority, resources, or behavior can move. Relevant features include hubs, bridges, clusters, peripheral nodes, bottlenecks, redundancy, and paths between communities. In influence analysis, topology helps explain why identical messages travel differently, which intermediaries connect otherwise separate populations, and where capture or failure could have disproportionate effects. Topology describes structure; it does not reveal motive by itself. Related: [[wiki/Social Graph|Social Graph]], [[wiki/Network Effects|Network Effects]], [[wiki/Propagation Bottleneck|Propagation Bottleneck]], [[wiki/Population Segmentation|Population Segmentation]].