We know who you followed last summer: Inferring social link creation times in twitter

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 517-526

  Meeder, Brendan ^a   Karrer, Brian ^b   Sayedi, Amin ^a   Ravi, R ^a   Borgs, Christian ^c   Chayes, Jennifer ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Graph analysis; Large scale data collection; Network evolution; Online social networks; User behavior

Indexed keywords

DATA COLLECTION; GRAPH ANALYSIS; NETWORK EVOLUTION; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; USER BEHAVIORS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84873458990     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1963405.1963479     Document Type: Conference Paper

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