The lifecycle and cascade of wechat social messaging groups

25th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 311-320

  Qiu, Jiezhong ^a   Li, Yixuan ^b   Tang, Jie ^a   Lu, Zheng ^c   Ye, Hao ^c   Chen, Bo ^c   Yang, Qiang ^d   Hopcroft, John E ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^c TENCENT AI LAB   (China)

^d HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Group Formation; Information Diffusion; Online Community; Social Messaging

Indexed keywords

WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMMUNICATION SERVICE; FORMATION AND EVOLUTIONS; GROUP FORMATIONS; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; INSTANT MESSAGING SERVICE; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; SOCIAL MESSAGING; SOCIAL NETWORK STRUCTURES;

FORECASTING;

EID: 85032482156     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2872427.2882979     Document Type: Conference Paper

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