Tie formation on twitter: Homophily and structure of egocentric networks

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT/SocialCom 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 465-470

  De Choudhury, Munmun ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Egonetworks; Homophily; Social media; Social networks; Ties; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EGONETWORKS; HOMOPHILY; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TIES; TWITTER;

SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; TOPOLOGY;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84856185106     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.177     Document Type: Conference Paper

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