Planetary-scale views on a large instant-messaging network

We present a study of anonymized data capturing a month of high-level communication activities within the whole of the Microsoft Messenger instant-messaging system. We examine characteristics and patterns that emerge from the collective dynamics of large numbers of people, rather than the actions and characteristics of individuals. The dataset contains summary properties of 30 billion conversations among 240 million people. From the data, we construct a commu

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Jure Leskovec, Eric Horvitz
• Keywords: Collective Dynamics, Internet Technology, Microsoft Messenger Instant-messaging, WWW 2008