Planetary-scale views on a large instant-messaging network

Proceeding of the 17th International Conference on World Wide Web 2008, WWW'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 915-924

  Leskovec, Jure ^a   Horvitz, Eric ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication networks; Large data; Online communication; Social networks; User demographics

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; LARGE DATA; ONLINE COMMUNICATION; SOCIAL NETWORKS; USER DEMOGRAPHICS;

INTERNET;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 57349111694     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1367497.1367620     Document Type: Conference Paper

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