Google+ or Google-? Dissecting the evolution of the New OSN in its first year

WWW 2013 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 483-493

  Gonzalez, Roberto ^a   Cuevas, Ruben ^a   Motamedi, Reza ^b   Rejaie, Reza ^b   Cuevas, Angel ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c INSTITUT NATIONAL DES TÉLÉCOMMUNICATIONS   (France)

Author keywords

Characterization; Evolution; Google+; Measurements; OSNs

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; GOOGLE; LARGE-SCALE MEASUREMENT; LARGEST CONNECTED COMPONENT; OSNS; RELATIVE SIZES; SOCIAL MEDIA; USER ACTIVITY;

CHARACTERIZATION; MEASUREMENTS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84893041596     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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