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...
-- New ties are often formed between people who already have friends in common. Though the social sciences have addressed the effects of existing structural patterns on the formati...
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...
Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) are computer based games in which players interact with one another in the virtual world. Worldwide revenues for MMORPGs h...