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An Experimental Study of Structural Diversity in Social Networks
Jessica Su, Krishna Kamath, Aneesh Sharma +2
Several recent studies of online social networking platforms have found that adoption rates and engagement levels are positively correlated with structural diversity, the degree of…
Do Diffusion Protocols Govern Cascade Growth?
Justin Cheng, Jon Kleinberg, Jure Leskovec +4
Large cascades can develop in online social networks as people share information with one another. Though simple reshare cascades have been studied extensively, the full range of c…
The Anatomy of the Facebook Social Graph
Johan Ugander, Brian Karrer, Lars Backstrom +1
We study the structure of the social graph of active Facebook users, the largest social network ever analyzed. We compute numerous features of the graph including the number of use…
Four Degrees of Separation
Lars Backstrom, Paolo Boldi, Marco Rosa +2
Frigyes Karinthy, in his 1929 short story "Láancszemek" ("Chains") suggested that any two persons are distanced by at most six friendship links. (The exact wording of the story is…