We investigate the breaking of ties between individuals in the online social network of Twitter, a hugely popular social media service. Building on sociology concepts such as stre...
Social media services have spread throughout the world in just a few years. They have become not only a new source of information, but also new mechanisms for societies world-wide...
Barbara Poblete, Ruth Garcia, Marcelo Mendoza, Ale...
In recent years, social media has become ubiquitous and important for social networking and content sharing. And yet, the content that is generated from these websites remains larg...
Social Media provide an exciting and novel view into social phenomena. The vast amounts of data that can be gathered from the Internet coupled with massively parallel supercomputer...
William N. Reynolds, Marta S. Weber, Robert M. Far...
Retweeting is the key mechanism for information diffusion in Twitter. It emerged as a simple yet powerful way of disseminating information in the Twitter social network. Even thoug...
Bongwon Suh, Lichan Hong, Peter Pirolli, Ed H. Chi