The impact of network structure on breaking ties in online social networks: Unfollowing on Twitter

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1101-1104

  Kivran Swaine, Funda ^a   Govindan, Priya ^a   Naaman, Mor ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Social media; Social networks; Tie breaks; Twitter

Indexed keywords

BREAKINGS; EMBEDDEDNESS; NETWORK STRUCTURES; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA SERVICES; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL THEORY; STRENGTH OF TIES; TIE BREAK; TWITTER;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 79958168368     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979105     Document Type: Conference Paper

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