Dynamics of personal social relationships in online social networks: A study on Twitter

COSN 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Online Social Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 15-26

  Arnaboldi, Valerio ^a   Conti, Marco ^a   Passarella, Andrea ^a   Dunbar, Robin ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ego networks; online social networks; personal social relationships

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMMUNICATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

COMMUNICATION RECORDS; DYNAMIC SOCIAL NETWORKS; EGO NETWORKS; EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES; ON-LINE COMMUNICATION; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS (OSN); SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84887299240     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2512938.2512949     Document Type: Conference Paper

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