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Ego Network Structure in Online Social Networks and its Impact on Information Diffusion
Valerio Arnaboldi, Marco Conti, Massimiliano La Gala +2
In the last few years, Online Social Networks (OSNs) attracted the interest of a large number of researchers, thanks to their central role in the society. Through the analysis of O…
Structure of Ego-alter relationships of Politicians in Twitter
Valerio Arnaboldi, Andrea Passarella, Marco Conti +1
We analyze the ego-alter Twitter networks of 300 Italian MPs and 18 European leaders, and of about 14,000 generic users. We find structural properties typical of social environment…
The Structure of Online Social Networks Mirror Those in the Offline World
R. I. M. Dunbar, Valerio Arnaboldi, Marco Conti +1
We use data on frequencies of bi-directional posts to define edges (or relationships) in two Facebook datasets and a Twitter dataset and use these to create ego-centric social netw…
Structural invariants and semantic fingerprints in the "ego network" of words
Kilian Ollivier, Chiara Boldrini, Andrea Passarella +1
Well-established cognitive models coming from anthropology have shown that, due to the cognitive constraints that limit our "bandwidth" for social interactions, humans organize the…
Structural invariants in individuals language use: the "ego network" of words
Kilian Ollivier, Chiara Boldrini, Andrea Passarella +1
The cognitive constraints that humans exhibit in their social interactions have been extensively studied by anthropologists, who have highlighted their regularities across differen…
Journalists' ego networks in Twitter: invariant and distinctive structural features
Mustafa Toprak, Chiara Boldrini, Andrea Passarella +1
Ego networks have proved to be a valuable tool for understanding the relationships that individuals establish with their peers, both in offline and online social networks. Particul…